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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 1.9765S, 127.4385WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 112.562 km, 127.4385° East, 1.9765° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pyb8. Id of event: us6000pyb8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 13:36:15 / March 12, 2025 @ 1:36 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:36:15 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 112.562 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 69 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4385° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.9765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.562 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km WNW 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 2025-03-12 13:36:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-17 13:20:23 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us6000pyb8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pyb8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pyb8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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