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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Gorontalo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 4, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.5453S, 123.5607WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/11/24 / 2024-11-16 12:41:04 / November 16, 2024 @ 12:41 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nvhf. Unique identifier: us7000nvhf. The temblor was picked up at 12:41:04 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 123.5607° East, latitude 0.5453° North, depth = 262.832 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 262.832 km (163 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo (min 5000 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 four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 55 km E of Gorontalo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.5607° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.5453° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 262.832 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55 km E of Gorontalo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-16 12:41:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-04 12:11:32 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 246 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 1.763 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us7000nvhf Id of event.
Event Code 7000nvhf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nvhf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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