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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.0988S, 128.055WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 03:35:48 / January 6, 2020 @ 3:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 128.055 East, latitude 2.0988 North, depth = 43.27 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.27 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:35:48 / 12:35 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007bgc. Unique identifier: us60007bgc.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.055° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.0988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km N 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 2020-01-06 03:35:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 02:10:34 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 298 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 1.486 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us60007bgc Id of event.
Event Code 60007bgc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007bgc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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