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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.0267S, 127.5361WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/17 / 2017-09-27 22:37:19 / September 27, 2017 @ 10:37 pm. Exact location, longitude 127.5361° East, latitude 1.0267° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000b1ew. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000b1ew. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:37:19 / 7:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km NNE of Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.5361° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0267° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km NNE of Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-27 22:37:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-27 04:14:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 0.304 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us2000b1ew Id of event.
Event Code 2000b1ew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b1ew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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