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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Ternate in Indonesia

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.1039S, 126.8315WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 81.734 km, 126.8315° East, 1.1039° North. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:02:16 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/24 / 2024-05-11 03:02:16 / May 11, 2024 @ 3:02 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000mxwu. Event ids that are associated: us6000mxwu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.734 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 70 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8315° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.1039° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.734 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 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 2024-05-11 03:02:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-11 03:21:07 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 369 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000mxwu Id of event.
Event Code 6000mxwu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mxwu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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