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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.4928S, 126.8284WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 235 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (146 miles) on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 04:34:15 / 4:34 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/04/20 / 2020-04-09 20:34:15 / April 9, 2020 @ 8:34 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.46 km (41 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 126.8284° East, 3.4928° North, depth 66.46 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008xm6. Id of event: us70008xm6.

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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 235 km NNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8284° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.4928° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 235km NNW 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 2020-04-09 20:34:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-16 23:27:25 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 284 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 2.755 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 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 us70008xm6 Id of event.
Event Code 70008xm6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008xm6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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