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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Manado in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.17S, 124.1407WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 108 km NW of Manado, Indonesia (67 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 20:20:14 / January 7, 2020 @ 8:20 pm. Unique identifier: us70006vyd. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006vyd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 293.48 km (182 miles). Exact location, longitude 124.1407° East, latitude 2.17° North, depth = 293.48 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:20:14 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 108 km NW of Manado, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.1407° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.17° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 293.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km NW of Manado, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-07 20:20:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-08 15:42:19 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 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 3.471 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us70006vyd Id of event.
Event Code 70006vyd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006vyd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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