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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.2143S, 126.7186WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 153 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (95 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 14:24:43 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70006x35. Event ids that are associated: us70006x35. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 06:24:43 / December 23, 2019 @ 6:24 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 126.7186 East, latitude 2.2143 North, depth = 35 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 153 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7186° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.2143° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153km WNW 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 2019-12-23 06:24:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-19 12:01:38 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 271 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 1.572 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us70006x35 Id of event.
Event Code 70006x35 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006x35, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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