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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 49 km NW of Ternate, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.0484S, 127.0165WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.0165 East, latitude 1.0484 North, depth = 42.602 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/25 / 2025-07-11 14:09:51 / July 11, 2025 @ 2:09 pm. The temblor was picked up at 14:09:51 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qc14. Id of event: us7000qc14. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.602 km (26 miles).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sofifi, Ternate (min 5000 pop).

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 six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km NW of Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0165° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0484° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.602 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km NW 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 2025-07-11 14:09:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-05 12:41:45 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 369 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 109 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.445 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us7000qc14 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qc14 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qc14, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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