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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 121 km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.2335S, 126.3705WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 121 km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (75 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:51:37 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 10:51:37 / April 21, 2020 @ 10:51 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.03 km (26 miles). Id of earthquake: us700090yf. Event ids that are associated: us700090yf. Exact location of event, longitude 126.3705 East, latitude 1.2335 North, depth = 42.03 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 121 km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3705° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.2335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121km WNW 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 2020-04-21 10:51:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-21 11:38:32 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 326 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 1.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us700090yf Id of event.
Event Code 700090yf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700090yf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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