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

Posted by admin on December 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.9645S, 127.534WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 127.534° East, latitude 0.9645° North, depth = 55.21 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:47:54 / 9:47 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 55.21 km (34 miles). Unique identifier: us100040rl. Ids that are associated to the event: us100040rl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 00:47:54 / November 20, 2015 @ 12:47 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km NE of Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.534° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.9645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NE of 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 2015-11-20 00:47:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 23:15:30 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 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 4.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us100040rl Id of event.
Event Code 100040rl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040rl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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