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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.518S, 128.64WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 111 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia (69 miles). Id of earthquake: us600064c3. Event ids that are associated: us600064c3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 128.64° East, latitude 2.518° North, depth = 57.51 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.51 km (36 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/19 / 2019-10-20 05:59:15 / October 20, 2019 @ 5:59 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:59:15 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 111 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.64° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.518° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km 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 2019-10-20 05:59:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-15 10:53:43 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 259 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 2.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us600064c3 Id of event.
Event Code 600064c3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600064c3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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