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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.1937S, 127.4502WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87.05 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/02/19 / 2019-02-04 19:20:31 / February 4, 2019 @ 7:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 03:20:31 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000jn9l. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jn9l. Exact location of event, longitude 127.4502 East, latitude 2.1937 North, depth = 87.05 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4502° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.1937° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km NW 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 2019-02-04 19:20:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-28 01:22:16 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 271 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 1.414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us2000jn9l Id of event.
Event Code 2000jn9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jn9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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