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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.5108S, 126.8467WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 235 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (146 miles). Global time and date of event 10/08/18 / 2018-08-10 19:34:00 / August 10, 2018 @ 7:34 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:34:00 / 3:34 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000gadw. Unique identifier: us1000gadw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.8467 East, latitude 3.5108 North, depth = 41.67 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.67 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 nine, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 235 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8467° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.5108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 235km NNW 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 2018-08-10 19:34:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-08 20:23:09 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 271 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 2.769 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us1000gadw Id of event.
Event Code 1000gadw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gadw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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