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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Bitung in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.9527S, 126.1152WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 122 km ESE of Bitung, Indonesia (76 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.752 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:43:00 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000rlcl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rlcl. Global time and date of event 29/12/25 / 2025-12-29 14:43:00 / December 29, 2025 @ 2:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 126.1152 East, latitude 0.9527 North, depth = 40.752 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 122 km ESE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1152° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.9527° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.752 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122 km ESE of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-29 14:43:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-29 16:24:02 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 326 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.808 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us7000rlcl Id of event.
Event Code 7000rlcl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rlcl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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