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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 65 km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.0023S, 128.5291WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 74.2 km (46 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/06/20 / 2020-06-25 17:23:07 / June 25, 2020 @ 5:23 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:23:07 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 74.2 km, 128.5291° East, 2.0023° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000agik. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000agik.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 65 km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.5291° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.0023° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km ENE 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 2020-06-25 17:23:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-08 16:18:31 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 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 3.952 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 111 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 us7000agik Id of event.
Event Code 7000agik An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000agik, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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