Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.9767S, 127.4934WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 21:19:20 / 9:19 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60006mdd. Unique identifier: us60006mdd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 150.55 km (94 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/19 / 2019-12-05 12:19:20 / December 5, 2019 @ 12:19 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 150.55 km, 127.4934° East, 0.9767° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop).

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

Did you feel anything?

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: 22 km NNE of Ternate, Indonesia.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.9767° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 150.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NNE of 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 2019-12-05 12:19:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-07 06:42:14 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 298 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 0.239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us60006mdd Id of event.
Event Code 60006mdd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006mdd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply