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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kota Ternate in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.0732S, 126.7525WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 21:35:50 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 13:35:50 / April 18, 2020 @ 1:35 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 126.7525° East, 1.0732° North, depth 54.23 km. Id of earthquake: us60009be3. Event ids that are associated: us60009be3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.23 km (34 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ternate (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7525° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2020-04-18 13:35:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-24 17:50:48 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 0.683 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us60009be3 Id of event.
Event Code 60009be3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009be3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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