Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Bilungala in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Bilungala in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 122.8892° East, latitude -0.0522° South, depth = 146.17 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 12:30:22 / January 11, 2020 @ 12:30 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 146.17 km (91 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us60007dva. Event ids that are associated: us60007dva. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:30:22 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 60 km SW of Bilungala, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.8892° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-0.0522° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	146.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km SW of Bilungala, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-11 12:30:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-04 11:44:08	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	312	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	0.99	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 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	us60007dva	Id of event.
Event Code	60007dva	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007dva,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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