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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on July 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.2595S, 128.0133WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 250.27 km (156 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 250.27 km, 128.0133° East, 2.2595° North. The temblor was picked up at 04:17:58 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700046q4. Id of event: us700046q4. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/06/19 / 2019-06-20 19:17:58 / June 20, 2019 @ 7:17 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 58 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.0133° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.2595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 250.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2019-06-20 19:17:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 22:57:28 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 1.612 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us700046q4 Id of event.
Event Code 700046q4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700046q4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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