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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 12, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.4075S, 128.7405WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 110 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia (68 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 220.906 km, 128.7405° East, 2.4075° North. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:05:04 / 3:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000p0cj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000p0cj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 220.906 km (137 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 20/12/24 / 2024-12-20 15:05:04 / December 20, 2024 @ 3:05 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 110 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.7405° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.4075° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 220.906 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-20 15:05:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-12 20:45:53 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 284 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us7000p0cj Id of event.
Event Code 7000p0cj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p0cj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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