Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Molibagu in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.2268S, 123.6792WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Molibagu in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 123.6792 East, latitude 0.2268 North, depth = 131.71 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 21:50:34 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 131.71 km (82 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000armw. Unique identifier: us1000armw. Global time and date of event 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 13:50:34 / October 8, 2017 @ 1:50 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

How would you describe the shaking?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 38 km WSW of Molibagu, Indonesia.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.6792° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.2268° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km WSW of Molibagu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-08 13:50:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-19 19:10:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.552 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000armw Id of event.
Event Code 1000armw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000armw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply