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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Manado in Indonesia

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Earthquake location 1.5234S, 124.7945WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Manado in Indonesia on Friday. Exact location, longitude 124.7945° East, latitude 1.5234° North, depth = 208.64 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 208.64 km (130 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:02:04 / 6:02 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 06:02:04 / April 19, 2024 @ 6:02 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000md30. Event ids that are associated: us7000md30.

Nearby 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 Bitung, Tondano, Tomohon. The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, 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 have been detected nearby.

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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: 7 km NW of Manado, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.7945° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5234° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 208.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km NW of Manado, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-19 06:02:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-12 09:20:21 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 271 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.678 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us7000md30 Id of event.
Event Code 7000md30 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000md30, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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