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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.5377S, 126.6637WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.55 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/06/15 / 2015-06-15 11:30:47 / June 15, 2015 @ 11:30 am. The temblor was picked up at 19:30:47 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.6637° East, 0.5377° North, depth 65.55 km. Unique identifier: us20002pxe. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002pxe.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 82 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6637° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.5377° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-15 11:30:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-03 09:56:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.74 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20002pxe Id of event.
Event Code 20002pxe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002pxe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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