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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.5484S, 127.3877WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.16 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/08/15 / 2015-08-23 14:33:29 / August 23, 2015 @ 2:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 127.3877° East, latitude 1.5484° North, depth = 19.16 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:33:29 / 11:33 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100034bs. Unique identifier: us100034bs.

Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate, Tobelo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 71 km WSW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3877° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.5484° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km WSW 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 2015-08-23 14:33:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-23 15:23:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 340 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 0.771 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us100034bs Id of event.
Event Code 100034bs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034bs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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