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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 47 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.828S, 126.9416WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 126.9416 East, latitude 0.828 North, depth = 43.07 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:40:24 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). 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: us700049xm. Unique identifier: us700049xm. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/19 / 2019-07-04 16:40:24 / July 4, 2019 @ 4:40 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.07 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 47 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9416° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km 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 2019-07-04 16:40:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 14:28:22 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 0.428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us700049xm Id of event.
Event Code 700049xm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700049xm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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