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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.8202S, 127.3399WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.3399 East, latitude 1.8202 North, depth = 117.03 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/12/17 / 2017-12-26 13:57:31 / December 26, 2017 @ 1:57 pm. Event id: us1000bwd3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bwd3. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:57:31 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 117.03 km (73 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 75 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3399° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km W of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-26 13:57:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-26 15:49:40 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 312 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 1.041 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us1000bwd3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bwd3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bwd3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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