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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, Halmahera, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.6581S, 127.226WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Halmahera, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Halmahera, Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 23:06:36 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us700059q6. Ids that are associated to the event: us700059q6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 23:06:36 / August 23, 2019 @ 11:06 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122.38 km (76 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.226 East, latitude 1.6581 North, depth = 122.38 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Halmahera, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.226° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6581° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Halmahera, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-23 23:06:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-30 04:32:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.891 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us700059q6 Id of event.
Event Code 700059q6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700059q6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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