Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Ternate in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/02/25 / 2025-02-02 20:07:41 / February 2, 2025 @ 8:07 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 150.251 km (93 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:07:41 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 127.468° East, 1.1932° North, depth 150.251 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000pavc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pavc.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo, Sofifi, Ternate.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 45 km NNE of Ternate, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.468° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.1932° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	150.251 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45 km NNE of 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	2025-02-02 20:07:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-02 20:23:37	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	354	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.431	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97	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	us7000pavc	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pavc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pavc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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