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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Bitung in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.3487S, 125.595WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.507 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/02/25 / 2025-02-22 03:12:21 / February 22, 2025 @ 3:12 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:12:21 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000pwm0. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwm0. Exact location, longitude 125.595° East, latitude 1.3487° North, depth = 9.507 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tomohon, Manado, Tondano. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km E of Bitung, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.595° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.3487° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.507 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km E 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 2025-02-22 03:12:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-05 00:06:04 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 298 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.761 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us6000pwm0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pwm0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pwm0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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