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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Bitung in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.341S, 125.323WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 125.323° East, latitude 2.341° North, depth = 160.16 km. Unique identifier: us100034ds. Ids that are associated to the event: us100034ds. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:58:51 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 160.16 km (100 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/15 / 2015-08-23 22:58:51 / August 23, 2015 @ 10:58 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bitung. Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop).

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 thirteen 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km N of Bitung, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.323° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.341° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 160.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km N 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 2015-08-23 22:58:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-24 00:00:52 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 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 2.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us100034ds Id of event.
Event Code 100034ds An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034ds, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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