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

Posted by admin on February 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.6246S, 122.3277WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:46:25 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/02/25 / 2025-02-18 19:46:25 / February 18, 2025 @ 7:46 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110.371 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 122.3277 East, latitude 0.6246 North, depth = 110.371 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pekt. Id of event: us7000pekt.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo. The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km W of Gorontalo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.3277° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.6246° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.371 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82 km W 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 2025-02-18 19:46:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-18 20:11:20 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.62 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000pekt Id of event.
Event Code 7000pekt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pekt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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