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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.0823S, 127.8875WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.37 km (18 miles). Unique identifier: us1000arfu. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000arfu. The temblor was reported at 00:02:05 / 12:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/10/17 / 2017-10-13 15:02:05 / October 13, 2017 @ 3:02 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 127.8875 East, latitude 1.0823 North, depth = 29.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo, Ternate, Sofifi. The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km ENE of Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.8875° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0823° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km ENE of 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 2017-10-13 15:02:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-13 15:56:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 369 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 0.605 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us1000arfu Id of event.
Event Code 1000arfu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000arfu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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