Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 119.27 km, 128.0573° East, 1.2922° North. The temblor was detected at 04:15:43 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 119.27 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000ac0i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ac0i. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/06/20 / 2020-06-15 04:15:43 / June 15, 2020 @ 4:15 am.

Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate, Sofifi, Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 48 km S of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.0573° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.2922° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	119.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 km S 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	2020-06-15 04:15:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-15 04:33:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	432	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	0.862	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000ac0i	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ac0i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ac0i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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