Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Pimpi in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pimpi in Indonesia on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/11/19 / 2019-11-12 02:48:27 / November 12, 2019 @ 2:48 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:48:27 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60006agq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006agq. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.6177 East, latitude 0.9527 North, depth = 35.44 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.44 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 10 km NE of Pimpi, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.6177° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.9527° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NE of Pimpi, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-12 02:48:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-12 03:09:06	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	326	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	2.154	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us60006agq	Id of event.
Event Code	60006agq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60006agq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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