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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.5241S, 127.2511WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.2511 East, latitude 1.5241 North, depth = 112.05 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 16:23:57 / July 2, 2018 @ 4:23 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:23:57 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 112.05 km (70 miles). Unique identifier: us2000fycq. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fycq.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 81 km NNW of Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2511° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km NNW 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 2018-07-02 16:23:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-09 13:53:47 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 246 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 0.756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us2000fycq Id of event.
Event Code 2000fycq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fycq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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