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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.1819S, 126.9397WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.09 km (33 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/11/15 / 2015-11-27 06:31:36 / November 27, 2015 @ 6:31 am. Exact location of earthquake, 126.9397° East, 1.1819° North, depth 53.09 km. The temblor was detected at 14:31:36 / 2:31 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100041n6. Unique identifier: us100041n6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 64 km NW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9397° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.1819° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NW 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 2015-11-27 06:31:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-27 06:51:52 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 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 0.59 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us100041n6 Id of event.
Event Code 100041n6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041n6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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