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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 145 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia

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Earthquake location 2.4729S, 126.9288WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 145 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia (90 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 23:12:32 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qvgf. Unique identifier: us7000qvgf. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/25 / 2025-08-17 23:12:32 / August 17, 2025 @ 11:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.9288 East, latitude 2.4729 North, depth = 57.806 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.806 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and two 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 145 km NW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9288° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.4729° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.806 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145 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 2025-08-17 23:12:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-12 02:09:53 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 271 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 26 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 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us7000qvgf Id of event.
Event Code 7000qvgf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qvgf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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