Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.3517S, 128.4622WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The epicenter was at a depth of 231.57 km (144 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 128.4622 East, latitude 2.3517 North, depth = 231.57 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d64r. Id of event: us6000d64r. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:01:45 / 2:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/12/20 / 2020-12-26 02:01:45 / December 26, 2020 @ 2:01 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-six 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 85 km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

Copyright © 2021 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.4622° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.3517° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 231.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 km NE 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 2020-12-26 02:01:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-06 23:48:36 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 259 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 1.913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us6000d64r Id of event.
Event Code 6000d64r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d64r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply