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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Bitung in Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.3808S, 125.7131WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 222 km NNE of Bitung, Indonesia (138 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:08:37 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.7131 East, latitude 3.3808 North, depth = 162.35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/16 / 2016-04-23 09:08:37 / April 23, 2016 @ 9:08 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10005dev. Event ids that are associated: us10005dev. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 162.35 km (101 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 222 km NNE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.7131° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.3808° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 162.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 222km NNE 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 2016-04-23 09:08:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-19 13:02:11 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 3.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us10005dev Id of event.
Event Code 10005dev An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005dev, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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