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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.5199S, 128.514WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 103 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia (64 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 22:41:33 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000kbtr. Event ids that are associated: us2000kbtr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 221.44 km (138 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 221.44 km, 128.514° East, 2.5199° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/04/19 / 2019-04-07 13:41:33 / April 7, 2019 @ 1:41 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 103 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.5199° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 221.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km NNE 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 2019-04-07 13:41:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-07 14:00:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 2.08 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us2000kbtr Id of event.
Event Code 2000kbtr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kbtr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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