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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on July 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.508S, 128.2693WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gdbf. Id of event: us2000gdbf. The temblor was detected at 17:20:06 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 88.13 km (55 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 128.2693° East, 2.508° North, depth 88.13 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/07/18 / 2018-07-25 08:20:06 / July 25, 2018 @ 8:20 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 90 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.2693° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.508° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km NNE 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 2018-07-25 08:20:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-25 08:34:16 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 369 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 1.946 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us2000gdbf Id of event.
Event Code 2000gdbf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gdbf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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