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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.4159S, 127.7881WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:33:25 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us200065zu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200065zu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.7881 East, latitude 2.4159 North, depth = 80.29 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 19:33:25 / June 16, 2016 @ 7:33 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.29 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 79 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.7881° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.4159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km NNW 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 2016-06-16 19:33:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-27 18:36:48 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 271 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 1.686 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us200065zu Id of event.
Event Code 200065zu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065zu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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