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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 40 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.9931S, 128.259WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 07:43:05 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114.55 km (71 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 128.259 East, latitude 1.9931 North, depth = 114.55 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/19 / 2019-08-14 22:43:05 / August 14, 2019 @ 10:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000557x. Id of event: us6000557x.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 40 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.9931° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km NE 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 2019-08-14 22:43:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-14 23:33:29 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 1.505 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 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 us6000557x Id of event.
Event Code 6000557x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000557x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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