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


Earthquake location 0.4948S, 126.7504WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. 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: 02/12/24 / 2024-12-02 09:12:12 / December 2, 2024 @ 9:12 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.7504 East, latitude 0.4948 North, depth = 70.418 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nveh. Id of event: us7000nveh. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:12:12 / 9:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 70.418 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 77 km WSW of Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.4948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.418 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 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 2024-12-02 09:12:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-09 08:17:31 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.675 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us7000nveh Id of event.
Event Code 7000nveh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nveh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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