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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.7682S, 127.0787WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 12:22:13 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/25 / 2025-08-08 12:22:13 / August 8, 2025 @ 12:22 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.023 km (68 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qz2v. Unique identifier: us6000qz2v. Exact location of event, depth 110.023 km, 127.0787° East, 1.7682° North.

Epicenter of the event was 104 km (64 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 103 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.0787° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.7682° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.023 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 km W 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 2025-08-08 12:22:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-08 12:38:43 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 432 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 127 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.031 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us6000qz2v Id of event.
Event Code 6000qz2v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qz2v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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