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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Bitung in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.7129S, 126.3241WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 130 km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia (81 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.61 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:54:30 / 2:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.3241 East, latitude 1.7129 North, depth = 35.61 km. Event id: us70006b49. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006b49. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 18:54:30 / November 14, 2019 @ 6:54 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and three, in the last 10 days one hundred and seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 130 km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3241° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.7129° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-14 18:54:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-04 22:18:26 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 1.4 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us70006b49 Id of event.
Event Code 70006b49 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006b49, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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