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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.4713S, 127.0198WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 137 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia (85 miles). Global time and date of event 21/03/17 / 2017-03-21 13:10:45 / March 21, 2017 @ 1:10 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:10:45 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20008tiz. Unique identifier: us20008tiz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.0198 East, latitude 2.4713 North, depth = 13.73 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.73 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 ninety-three 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 137 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0198° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.4713° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137km NW 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 2017-03-21 13:10:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-21 14:23:42 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 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 1.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us20008tiz Id of event.
Event Code 20008tiz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008tiz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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