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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.801S, 127.6136WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:56:16 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/10/25 / 2025-10-05 12:56:16 / October 5, 2025 @ 12:56 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 132.222 km (82 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.6136 East, latitude 1.801 North, depth = 132.222 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rj8h. Id of event: us6000rj8h.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.6136° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.801° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 132.222 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 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 2025-10-05 12:56:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-28 13:16:50 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 259 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.052 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us6000rj8h Id of event.
Event Code 6000rj8h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rj8h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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