Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Friday. Event id: us6000nh5c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nh5c. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.424 km (8 miles). Exact location, longitude 127.7881° East, latitude 1.5213° North, depth = 12.424 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/24 / 2024-07-19 14:58:36 / July 19, 2024 @ 2:58 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:58:36 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ternate, Sofifi, Tobelo. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km SW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.7881° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.5213° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.424 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 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	2024-07-19 14:58:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-03 07:23:53	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	298	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.855	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us6000nh5c	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nh5c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nh5c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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