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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 83 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.6682S, 127.2591WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us6000npt9. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000npt9. The epicenter was at a depth of 124.396 km (77 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/09/24 / 2024-09-05 07:08:17 / September 5, 2024 @ 7:08 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 127.2591° East, latitude 1.6682° North, depth = 124.396 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:08:17 / 7:08 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 83 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2591° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6682° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.396 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 2024-09-05 07:08:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-05 08:14:00 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.897 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us6000npt9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000npt9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000npt9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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