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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.748S, 127.4036WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tobelo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 121.28 km, 127.4036° East, 1.748° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/04/19 / 2019-04-02 12:28:32 / April 2, 2019 @ 12:28 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k94e. Unique identifier: us2000k94e. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 121.28 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:28:32 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4036° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.748° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km W 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 2019-04-02 12:28:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-02 12:42:31 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 1 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 400 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 0.97 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us2000k94e Id of event.
Event Code 2000k94e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k94e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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