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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.5693S, 127.3384WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 15:32:42 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000c6b3. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000c6b3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.3384 East, latitude 1.5693 North, depth = 133.85 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 21/10/20 / 2020-10-21 15:32:42 / October 21, 2020 @ 3:32 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 133.85 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate, Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 77 km (48 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 three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 76 km WSW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3384° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km 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 2020-10-21 15:32:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-02 23:54:59 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 259 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 0.792 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us7000c6b3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c6b3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c6b3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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