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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 72 km WSW of Tobelo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.5385S, 127.3812WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 127.3812° East, 1.5385° North, depth 153.99 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 153.99 km (96 miles). Global time and date of event 06/04/19 / 2019-04-06 01:34:19 / April 6, 2019 @ 1:34 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000353h. Unique identifier: us7000353h. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:34:19 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate, Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km WSW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data 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 127.3812° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 153.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km WSW 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 2019-04-06 01:34:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-13 01:07:16 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 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 0.761 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us7000353h Id of event.
Event Code 7000353h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000353h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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