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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 12, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.2749S, 128.5857WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 08:28:26 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 128.5857 East, latitude 2.2749 North, depth = 26.594 km. Id of earthquake: us6000ntvm. Event ids that are associated: us6000ntvm. Global time and date of event 19/09/24 / 2024-09-19 08:28:26 / September 19, 2024 @ 8:28 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.594 km (17 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 88 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.5857° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.2749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.594 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 km NE 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 2024-09-19 08:28:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-12 07:01:19 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.927 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us6000ntvm Id of event.
Event Code 6000ntvm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntvm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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