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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.0292S, 128.9857WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 113 km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia (70 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/12/19 / 2019-12-08 06:03:16 / December 8, 2019 @ 6:03 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60006ra6. Event ids that are associated: us60006ra6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:03:16 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 128.9857 East, latitude 2.0292 North, depth = 35 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 113 km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.9857° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.0292° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km ENE 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 2019-12-08 06:03:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-04 13:33:53 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 259 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 2.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us60006ra6 Id of event.
Event Code 60006ra6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006ra6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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