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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.1089S, 126.8504WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.2 km (41 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 126.8504° East, 1.1089° North, depth 65.2 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:16:27 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000c8bt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c8bt. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/20 / 2020-10-14 20:16:27 / October 14, 2020 @ 8:16 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 69 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.1089° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 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 2020-10-14 20:16:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-22 18:04:03 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 340 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 0.615 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us6000c8bt Id of event.
Event Code 6000c8bt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c8bt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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