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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.6945S, 127.4054WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 127.4054° East, latitude 1.6945° North, depth = 131.39 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 131.39 km (82 miles). Global time and date of event 12/09/19 / 2019-09-12 22:16:49 / September 12, 2019 @ 10:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60005lbx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005lbx. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:16:49 / 7:16 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 67 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4054° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6945° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km W 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 2019-09-12 22:16:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-21 03:58:09 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 284 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 0.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us60005lbx Id of event.
Event Code 60005lbx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005lbx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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