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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Manado in Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.0102S, 124.3932WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 175 km NNW of Manado, Indonesia (109 miles). Global time and date of event 29/10/18 / 2018-10-29 14:26:55 / October 29, 2018 @ 2:26 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 297.07 km (185 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 124.3932° East, 3.0102° North, depth 297.07 km. The temblor was detected at 22:26:55 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000hiix. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hiix. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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. 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: 175 km NNW of Manado, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.3932° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.0102° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 297.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 175km NNW of Manado, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-29 14:26:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-29 16:55:17 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 312 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 3.711 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us1000hiix Id of event.
Event Code 1000hiix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hiix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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