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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.8983S, 126.7047WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 143 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (89 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.54 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:19:05 / 10:19 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/16 / 2016-09-27 14:19:05 / September 27, 2016 @ 2:19 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 126.7047 East, latitude 1.8983 North, depth = 53.54 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007dfg. Unique identifier: us20007dfg.

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

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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. 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: 143 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7047° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8983° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143km NNW 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 2016-09-27 14:19:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-17 16:07:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.3 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us20007dfg Id of event.
Event Code 20007dfg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007dfg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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