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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.9008S, 128.4573WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 128.4573° East, latitude 1.9008° North, depth = 53.05 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.05 km (33 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/12/20 / 2020-12-02 04:01:50 / December 2, 2020 @ 4:01 am. The temblor was picked up at 04:01:50 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cn2g. Unique identifier: us7000cn2g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo.

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

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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. 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: 53 km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.4573° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.9008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 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 2020-12-02 04:01:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-17 06:00:07 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 326 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 1.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us7000cn2g Id of event.
Event Code 7000cn2g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cn2g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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