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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 122 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.2725S, 126.3894WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 122 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia (76 miles) on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bdxs. Unique identifier: us7000bdxs. Exact location, longitude 126.3894° East, latitude 1.2725° North, depth = 35.83 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:45:25 / 6:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/20 / 2020-08-27 18:45:25 / August 27, 2020 @ 6:45 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.83 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 122 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3894° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.2725° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122 km WNW of 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 2020-08-27 18:45:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-03 14:04:13 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 369 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 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us7000bdxs Id of event.
Event Code 7000bdxs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bdxs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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