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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.8637S, 127.3558WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e1v7. Id of event: us1000e1v7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48.56 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 127.3558° East, 1.8637° North, depth 48.56 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/05/18 / 2018-05-03 04:54:54 / May 3, 2018 @ 4:54 am. The temblor was detected at 12:54:54 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3558° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8637° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km WNW 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 2018-05-03 04:54:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-31 04:21:37 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 298 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 1.084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us1000e1v7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e1v7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e1v7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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