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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.8582S, 126.5392WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.9 km (38 miles). Global time and date of event 13/06/19 / 2019-06-13 00:07:30 / June 13, 2019 @ 12:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 126.5392° East, 0.8582° North, depth 60.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:07:30 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us60004087. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004087.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ternate (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 92 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This information 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 126.5392° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.8582° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-13 00:07:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-13 02:56:06 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 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 0.831 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us60004087 Id of event.
Event Code 60004087 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004087, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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