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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.8538S, 126.5459WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 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). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 02:32:34 / January 27, 2020 @ 2:32 am. Id of earthquake: us70007k1c. Event ids that are associated: us70007k1c. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:32:34 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.5459 East, latitude 0.8538 North, depth = 35 km.

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ternate (min 5000 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 two hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 91 km W of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5459° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.8538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km W of Kota 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 2020-01-27 02:32:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-06 23:34:05 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 0.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us70007k1c Id of event.
Event Code 70007k1c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007k1c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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