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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.7966S, 127.2887WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Event id: us2000hjqw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hjqw. The temblor was detected at 01:15:48 / 1:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 110.19 km (68 miles). Exact location of event, depth 110.19 km, 127.2887° East, 1.7966° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/18 / 2018-09-17 17:15:48 / September 17, 2018 @ 5:15 pm.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 80 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2887° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.7966° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km 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 2018-09-17 17:15:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-11 12:56:36 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 259 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 1.02 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us2000hjqw Id of event.
Event Code 2000hjqw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hjqw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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