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

Posted by admin on March 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.287S, 128.2101WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/02/25 / 2025-02-20 11:12:02 / February 20, 2025 @ 11:12 am. Id of earthquake: us7000pexe. Event ids that are associated: us7000pexe. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.2101 East, latitude 2.287 North, depth = 167.056 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 167.056 km (104 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:12:02 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 65 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.2101° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.287° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 167.056 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km NNE 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 2025-02-20 11:12:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-17 11:40:14 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us7000pexe Id of event.
Event Code 7000pexe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pexe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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