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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Bitung in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.4944S, 125.6485WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/03/18 / 2018-03-14 14:26:08 / March 14, 2018 @ 2:26 pm. Event id: us1000d4a6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d4a6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.89 km (23 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:26:08 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.6485° East, latitude 1.4944° North, depth = 36.89 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomohon, Manado, Tondano (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Every 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 52 km E of Bitung, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6485° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4944° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km E of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-14 14:26:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-15 08:24:12 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 354 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 1.861 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us1000d4a6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4a6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d4a6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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