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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.1304S, 127.4009WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 73.44 km, 127.4009° East, 2.1304° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005eua. Id of event: us70005eua. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 73.44 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:27:18 / 12:27 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/09/19 / 2019-09-04 16:27:18 / September 4, 2019 @ 4:27 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 80 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4009° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.1304° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km WNW 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 2019-09-04 16:27:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-12 01:00:42 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 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 1.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us70005eua Id of event.
Event Code 70005eua An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005eua, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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