Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 222 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia (138 miles) on Monday. Id of earthquake: us1000h7md. Event ids that are associated: us1000h7md. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.37 km (36 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 11:03:23 / October 1, 2018 @ 11:03 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.6958 East, latitude 3.2458 North, depth = 57.37 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:03:23 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 222 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.6958° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.2458° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	222km NW 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	2018-10-01 11:03:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-13 05:43:37	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	326	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	2.547	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us1000h7md	Id of event.
Event Code	1000h7md	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000h7md,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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