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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.25S, 128.1104WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:30:48 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/03/19 / 2019-03-11 15:30:48 / March 11, 2019 @ 3:30 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jjc9. Id of event: us1000jjc9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 162.11 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 128.1104° East, 2.25° North, depth 162.11 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 58 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.1104° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.25° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 162.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km N 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 2019-03-11 15:30:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 13:32:42 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 298 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 1.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us1000jjc9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jjc9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jjc9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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