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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on June 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.5559S, 126.7779WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 244 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia (152 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 18/06/25 / 2025-06-18 04:18:37 / June 18, 2025 @ 4:18 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.435 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:18:37 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000qkyj. Event ids that are associated: us6000qkyj. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.7779 East, latitude 3.5559 North, depth = 50.435 km.

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 fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 244 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7779° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.5559° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.435 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 244 km NW 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 2025-06-18 04:18:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-18 04:35:52 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us6000qkyj Id of event.
Event Code 6000qkyj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qkyj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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