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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Ternate in Indonesia

Posted by admin on November 12, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.4483S, 127.1465WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Ternate in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/25 / 2025-10-21 09:29:39 / October 21, 2025 @ 9:29 am. Exact location of earthquake, 127.1465° East, 1.4483° North, depth 110.645 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.645 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000rmsw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rmsw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:29:39 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby 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 Sofifi, Ternate. Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Sofifi (c. 36 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 77 km NNW of Ternate, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1465° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.645 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km NNW 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 2025-10-21 09:29:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-12 07:23:14 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 284 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 2.306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us6000rmsw Id of event.
Event Code 6000rmsw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rmsw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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