Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Bitung in Indonesia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us1000hut4. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hut4. Global time and date of event 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 06:39:13 / November 21, 2018 @ 6:39 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.26 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:39:13 / 2:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.3225 East, latitude 0.985 North, depth = 71.26 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manado, Tomohon, Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.3225° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.985° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-21 06:39:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-27 07:05:58	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	340	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	2.054	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us1000hut4	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hut4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hut4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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