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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Ternate in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.6506S, 126.4178WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 143 km NW of Ternate, Indonesia (89 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/25 / 2025-12-09 18:02:29 / December 9, 2025 @ 6:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rtp9. Unique identifier: us6000rtp9. The temblor was detected at 18:02:29 / 6:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.4178 East, latitude 1.6506 North, depth = 48.269 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.269 km (30 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 143 km NW of Ternate, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4178° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6506° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.269 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143 km NW 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 2025-12-09 18:02:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-09 21:27:36 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 340 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us6000rtp9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rtp9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rtp9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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