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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Gorontalo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.1939S, 122.5476WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mthj. Unique identifier: us6000mthj. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 165.994 km (103 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 17:01:01 / April 24, 2024 @ 5:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:01:01 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 122.5476° East, 0.1939° North, depth 165.994 km.

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km WSW of Gorontalo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.5476° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.1939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 165.994 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km WSW of Gorontalo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-24 17:01:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-02 20:37:36 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 354 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 107 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mthj Id of event.
Event Code 6000mthj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mthj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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