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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.3932S, 126.8615WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 147 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (91 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 56.22 km (35 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.8615 East, latitude 2.3932 North, depth = 56.22 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:26:59 / 8:26 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j3il. Id of event: us2000j3il. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/01/19 / 2019-01-13 12:26:59 / January 13, 2019 @ 12:26 pm. 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 twenty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 147 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8615° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.3932° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km WNW 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 2019-01-13 12:26:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-13 13:02:50 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 1.687 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us2000j3il Id of event.
Event Code 2000j3il An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j3il, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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