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

Posted by admin on December 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.8337S, 127.6664WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 170.25 km (106 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/18 / 2018-11-24 09:41:54 / November 24, 2018 @ 9:41 am. Exact location of event, longitude 127.6664 East, latitude 1.8337 North, depth = 170.25 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:41:54 / 6:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hxy8. Id of event: us1000hxy8.

Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 39 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.6664° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 170.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km WNW 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 2018-11-24 09:41:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-19 14:10:12 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 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 1.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us1000hxy8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hxy8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hxy8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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