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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.4966S, 126.6325WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia on Friday. Event id: us6000p6yg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000p6yg. Exact location, longitude 126.6325° East, latitude 0.4966° North, depth = 57.852 km. Global time and date of event 22/11/24 / 2024-11-22 08:31:06 / November 22, 2024 @ 8:31 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.852 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:31:06 / 8:31 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-nine 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 89 km WSW of Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6325° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.4966° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.852 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89 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 2024-11-22 08:31:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-22 13:44:09 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.783 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us6000p6yg Id of event.
Event Code 6000p6yg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p6yg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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