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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 100 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.0576S, 127.1713WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 100 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (62 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:29:40 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 84.164 km (52 miles). Global time and date of event 16/12/25 / 2025-12-16 22:29:40 / December 16, 2025 @ 10:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 127.1713° East, latitude 2.0576° North, depth = 84.164 km. 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: us6000rvcw. Unique identifier: us6000rvcw.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 100 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1713° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.0576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.164 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100 km WNW 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 2025-12-16 22:29:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-16 22:54:10 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 312 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us6000rvcw Id of event.
Event Code 6000rvcw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rvcw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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