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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.039S, 127.467WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.467 East, latitude 0.039 North, depth = 152.79 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/19 / 2019-11-06 20:00:54 / November 6, 2019 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:00:54 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 152.79 km (95 miles). Unique identifier: us60006bii. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006bii.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate, Sofifi. Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 83 km S of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.467° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.039° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km S 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 2019-11-06 20:00:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-19 16:02:12 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 0.734 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us60006bii Id of event.
Event Code 60006bii An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006bii, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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