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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 113 km ESE of Bitung, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.2275S, 126.1235WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 113 km ESE of Bitung, Indonesia (70 miles) on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/24 / 2024-12-27 13:29:58 / December 27, 2024 @ 1:29 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pfwt. Id of event: us6000pfwt. The temblor was reported at 13:29:58 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.1235 East, latitude 1.2275 North, depth = 45.895 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.895 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-seven 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: 113 km ESE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1235° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.2275° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.895 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113 km ESE of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-27 13:29:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-27 14:04:22 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 354 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.323 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us6000pfwt Id of event.
Event Code 6000pfwt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pfwt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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