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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.9172S, 128.3375WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 244 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia (152 miles). Global time and date of event 13/07/19 / 2019-07-13 21:58:02 / July 13, 2019 @ 9:58 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 55.53 km (35 miles). Unique identifier: us70004jsu. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004jsu. Exact location, longitude 128.3375° East, latitude 3.9172° North, depth = 55.53 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 06:58:02 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter).

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 five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 244 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.3375° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.9172° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 244km N 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 2019-07-13 21:58:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-13 22:30:59 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 354 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 3.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us70004jsu Id of event.
Event Code 70004jsu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004jsu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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