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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.7484S, 127.0503WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 155 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia (96 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.0503 East, latitude 2.7484 North, depth = 72.99 km. Event id: us10008wj1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008wj1. The temblor was picked up at 11:16:58 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 72.99 km (45 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/05/17 / 2017-05-23 03:16:58 / May 23, 2017 @ 3:16 am.

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

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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. 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: 155 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0503° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.7484° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155km 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 2017-05-23 03:16:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-19 04:12:10 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 1.988 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us10008wj1 Id of event.
Event Code 10008wj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008wj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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