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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 50 km ESE of Gorontalo, Indonesia

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Earthquake location 0.4283S, 123.5058WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia on Monday. The temblor was detected at 02:42:07 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/25 / 2025-07-28 02:42:07 / July 28, 2025 @ 2:42 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 238.144 km (148 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 123.5058° East, 0.4283° North, depth 238.144 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000qvjt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qvjt.

Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-three 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 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: 50 km ESE of Gorontalo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.5058° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.4283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 238.144 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km ESE of Gorontalo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-28 02:42:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-28 03:00:31 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us6000qvjt Id of event.
Event Code 6000qvjt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qvjt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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