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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.249S, 128.6473WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us20004h2r. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004h2r. Exact location of event, depth 43.32 km, 128.6473° East, 2.249° North. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:29:04 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.32 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/15 / 2015-12-10 08:29:04 / December 10, 2015 @ 8:29 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 91 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.6473° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.249° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km NE 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 2015-12-10 08:29:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-07 11:19:10 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 284 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 1.947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us20004h2r Id of event.
Event Code 20004h2r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004h2r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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