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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on May 19, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.2532S, 128.267WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 10:25:15 / 10:25 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70003mlz. Event ids that are associated: us70003mlz. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/19 / 2019-05-11 01:25:15 / May 11, 2019 @ 1:25 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 128.267 East, latitude 2.2532 North, depth = 154.99 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 154.99 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.267° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.2532° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 154.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2019-05-11 01:25:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-19 03:38:47 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 1.724 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us70003mlz Id of event.
Event Code 70003mlz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003mlz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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