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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.2133S, 126.5531WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 110 km SW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (68 miles) on Thursday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:06:55 / 5:06 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/12/16 / 2016-12-07 21:06:55 / December 7, 2016 @ 9:06 pm. Exact location of event, depth 39.28 km, 126.5531° East, 0.2133° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.28 km (24 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20007z0a. Unique identifier: us20007z0a.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 110 km SW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5531° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.2133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km SW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-07 21:06:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 22:23:43 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 0.984 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us20007z0a Id of event.
Event Code 20007z0a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007z0a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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