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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.1655S, 126.7847WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 144 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (89 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/19 / 2019-01-06 17:46:47 / January 6, 2019 @ 5:46 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000j7x1. Event ids that are associated: us2000j7x1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.43 km (40 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 64.43 km, 126.7847° East, 2.1655° North. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:46:47 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 144 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7847° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.1655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144km 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 2019-01-06 17:46:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-04 15:58:04 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 284 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 1.501 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us2000j7x1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j7x1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j7x1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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