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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.5607S, 126.9944WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.58 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/11/15 / 2015-11-21 15:32:23 / November 21, 2015 @ 3:32 pm. Exact location of event, depth 106.58 km, 126.9944° East, 0.5607° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:32:23 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000404a. Id of event: us1000404a.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9944° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.5607° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km 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 2015-11-21 15:32:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-21 19:58:56 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 298 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 4.512 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us1000404a Id of event.
Event Code 1000404a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000404a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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