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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.4082S, 127.136WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70004ke6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004ke6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.4 km (80 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 06:31:12 / July 15, 2019 @ 6:31 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.136 East, latitude 1.4082 North, depth = 129.4 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:31:12 / 2:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sofifi, Ternate.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.136° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4082° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-15 06:31:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-15 07:06:21 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 340 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 0.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us70004ke6 Id of event.
Event Code 70004ke6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004ke6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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