Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

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


Earthquake location 0.4717S, 126.6648WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia on Friday. Event id: us7000nrwg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nrwg. The temblor was reported at 02:08:12 / 2:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/24 / 2024-11-15 02:08:12 / November 15, 2024 @ 2:08 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.597 km (40 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.6648 East, latitude 0.4717 North, depth = 64.597 km.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ternate (min 5000 pop).

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

Did you feel it?

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: 87 km WSW of Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6648° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.4717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.597 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87 km WSW of Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-15 02:08:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-15 22:31:32 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.762 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us7000nrwg Id of event.
Event Code 7000nrwg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nrwg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply