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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.7591S, 127.261WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 127.261 East, latitude 1.7591 North, depth = 119.687 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 09:25:50 / July 26, 2024 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ng36. Id of event: us6000ng36. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:25:50 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 119.687 km (74 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 83 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.261° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.7591° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.687 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km W 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 2024-07-26 09:25:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-26 14:58:24 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 326 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.986 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us6000ng36 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ng36 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ng36, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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