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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 85 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia

Posted by admin on March 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.6679S, 127.2443WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/03/20 / 2020-03-21 03:52:46 / March 21, 2020 @ 3:52 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115.63 km (72 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70008deg. Event ids that are associated: us70008deg. Exact location of event, longitude 127.2443 East, latitude 1.6679 North, depth = 115.63 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:52:46 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 85 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2443° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km W 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 2020-03-21 03:52:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-21 04:13:19 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 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 0.898 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 164 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 us70008deg Id of event.
Event Code 70008deg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008deg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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