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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on June 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.7115S, 127.5585WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 04:33:36 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 125.7 km (78 miles). Exact location of event, depth 125.7 km, 127.5585° East, 1.7115° North. Id of earthquake: us1000eek7. Event ids that are associated: us1000eek7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 19:33:36 / May 25, 2018 @ 7:33 pm.

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo.

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

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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 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: 50 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.5585° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.7115° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km 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 2018-05-25 19:33:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-14 16:56:19 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 271 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 0.952 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us1000eek7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eek7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eek7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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