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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.6591S, 126.4224WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 106 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (66 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:58:22 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70004n49. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004n49. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 23:58:22 / July 8, 2019 @ 11:58 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 126.4224 East, latitude 0.6591 North, depth = 20.95 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.95 km (13 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 106 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.6591° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km 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 2019-07-08 23:58:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-20 04:37:16 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 369 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 4.022 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70004n49 Id of event.
Event Code 70004n49 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004n49, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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