Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Gorontalo in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 160 km NNW of Gorontalo, Indonesia (99 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.403 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:45:05 / 9:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000rni3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rni3. Global time and date of event 15/11/25 / 2025-11-15 21:45:05 / November 15, 2025 @ 9:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.4646 East, latitude 1.8573 North, depth = 16.403 km.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 160 km NNW of Gorontalo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.4646° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.8573° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.403 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	160 km NNW of Gorontalo, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-15 21:45:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-08 04:28:38	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.838	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us6000rni3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rni3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rni3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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