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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 67 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.2567S, 128.3077WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 156.803 km (97 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nwm9. Unique identifier: us6000nwm9. The temblor was picked up at 22:22:10 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/10/24 / 2024-10-04 22:22:10 / October 4, 2024 @ 10:22 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 128.3077° East, 2.2567° North, depth 156.803 km.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.3077° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.2567° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 156.803 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km NNE 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 2024-10-04 22:22:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-05 01:52:45 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 312 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.749 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us6000nwm9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nwm9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nwm9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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