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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Halmahera, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.3677S, 127.1638WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Halmahera, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Halmahera, Indonesia. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:54:58 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98.82 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/01/19 / 2019-01-31 12:54:58 / January 31, 2019 @ 12:54 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 127.1638° East, latitude 1.3677° North, depth = 98.82 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jb8z. Unique identifier: us2000jb8z.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Halmahera, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1638° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.3677° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Halmahera, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-31 12:54:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-31 13:13:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us2000jb8z Id of event.
Event Code 2000jb8z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jb8z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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