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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.4703S, 126.4658WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 125 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (78 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.93 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.4658 East, latitude 1.4703 North, depth = 43.93 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:31:03 / 1:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/04/20 / 2020-04-06 05:31:03 / April 6, 2020 @ 5:31 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70008pr4. Event ids that are associated: us70008pr4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: 125 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4658° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125km NW 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 2020-04-06 05:31:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-06 06:05:11 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 354 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 1.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us70008pr4 Id of event.
Event Code 70008pr4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008pr4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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