Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/24 / 2024-07-23 09:28:37 / July 23, 2024 @ 9:28 am. Exact location of event, longitude 127.8264 East, latitude 1.4943 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:28:37 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000nesz. Event ids that are associated: us6000nesz.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate, Sofifi, Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km SW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.8264° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.4943° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km SW 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	2024-07-23 09:28:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-23 09:49:08	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.852	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	104	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	us6000nesz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nesz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nesz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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