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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.6757S, 127.2841WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 127.2841 East, latitude 1.6757 North, depth = 124.05 km. The temblor was reported at 14:08:33 / 2:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/20 / 2020-08-05 14:08:33 / August 5, 2020 @ 2:08 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b9p7. Id of event: us6000b9p7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 124.05 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

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 seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 80 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2841° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6757° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km W 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 2020-08-05 14:08:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-12 09:56:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 312 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 0.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us6000b9p7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b9p7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b9p7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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