Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Modisi in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Modisi in Indonesia on Monday. The temblor was detected at 11:18:47 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 123.8229 East, latitude 0.7313 North, depth = 265.51 km. Unique identifier: us7000mdtv. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdtv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 265.51 km (165 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 11:18:47 / April 22, 2024 @ 11:18 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 74 km WNW of Modisi, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.8229° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.7313° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	265.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	74 km WNW of Modisi, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-22 11:18:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-03 14:31:47	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	90	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.051	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	us7000mdtv	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mdtv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mdtv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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