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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.9633S, 127.3262WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 25/09/20 / 2020-09-25 19:28:46 / September 25, 2020 @ 7:28 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:28:46 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000c1cr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c1cr. Exact location of event, depth 107.75 km, 127.3262° East, 1.9633° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 107.75 km (67 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventeen 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. Each 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: 80 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3262° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.9633° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km 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 2020-09-25 19:28:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-25 20:34:26 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 326 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 1.184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us6000c1cr Id of event.
Event Code 6000c1cr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c1cr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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