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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.5906S, 128.2718WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 99 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia (62 miles) on Wednesday. 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: us70003b78. Unique identifier: us70003b78. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.2718 East, latitude 2.5906 North, depth = 42.61 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 06:14:32 / April 24, 2019 @ 6:14 am. The temblor was picked up at 15:14:32 / 3:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.61 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 99 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.2718° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.5906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km NNE 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 2019-04-24 06:14:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-30 13:53:00 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 326 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 2.02 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us70003b78 Id of event.
Event Code 70003b78 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003b78, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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