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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Tondano in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.8805S, 125.2774WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Tondano in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/20 / 2020-11-09 15:22:57 / November 9, 2020 @ 3:22 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000cci3. Event ids that are associated: us7000cci3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:22:57 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.99 km (23 miles). Exact location, longitude 125.2774° East, latitude 0.8805° North, depth = 36.99 km.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manado, Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Tomohon (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 62 km SE of Tondano, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.2774° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.8805° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km SE of Tondano, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-09 15:22:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-09 15:48:03 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 2.091 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000cci3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cci3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cci3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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