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


Earthquake location 1.5881S, 127.4391WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.4391 East, latitude 1.5881 North, depth = 118.61 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118.61 km (74 miles). Id of earthquake: us700090ai. Event ids that are associated: us700090ai. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/04/20 / 2020-04-20 06:49:38 / April 20, 2020 @ 6:49 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:49:38 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate, Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 65 km WSW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4391° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km WSW 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 2020-04-20 06:49:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-24 13:01:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 0.814 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us700090ai Id of event.
Event Code 700090ai An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700090ai, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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