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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Bitung in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.9965S, 125.4553WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.4553 East, latitude 0.9965 North, depth = 70.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.4 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:43:34 / 10:43 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us100032wf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100032wf. Global time and date of event 17/08/15 / 2015-08-17 14:43:34 / August 17, 2015 @ 2:43 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manado, Tomohon, Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 58 km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.4553° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.9965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SSE 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 2015-08-17 14:43:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-17 22:46:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 354 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 1.924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us100032wf Id of event.
Event Code 100032wf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032wf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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