Moderate mag. 4.7 earthquake - Parigi Moutong Regency, 1.4 km north of Talada, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Sunday, 29 Nov 2020 1:26 am (GMT +8) -

Moderate mag. 4.7 earthquake - Parigi Moutong Regency, 1.4 km north of Talada, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Sunday, 29 Nov 2020 1:26 am (GMT +8)

Moderate magnitude 4.7 earthquake at 10 km depth

28 Nov 17:31 UTC: First to report: EMSC after 5 minutes.
28 Nov 17:35: Now using data updates from BMKG
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28 Nov 18:05: Magnitude recalculated from 4.8 to 4.7. Epicenter location corrected by 5.7 km (3.5 mi) towards W.
Date & time: 28 Nov 2020 17:26:12 UTC -
Local time at epicenter: Sunday, 29 Nov 2020 1:26 am (GMT +8)
Magnitude: 4.7
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 0.6°N / 120.31°E (Parigi Moutong Regency, Sulawesi Centrale, Indonesia)
Nearest volcano: Una Una (168 km / 104 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
175 km (109 mi) NNE of Palu (pop: 282,400) --> See nearby quakes!
227 km (141 mi) NNW of Poso (pop: 47,100) --> See nearby quakes!
306 km (190 mi) W of Gorontalo (pop: 144,200) --> See nearby quakes!
318 km (198 mi) E of Bontang (East Kalimantan) (pop: 101,700) --> See nearby quakes!
325 km (202 mi) WNW of Luwuk (pop: 47,800) --> See nearby quakes!
372 km (231 mi) ENE of Samarinda (East Kalimantan) (pop: 355,200) --> See nearby quakes!
381 km (237 mi) ENE of Loa Janan (East Kalimantan) (pop: 212,800) --> See nearby quakes!
400 km (248 mi) N of Palopo (South Sulawesi) (pop: 129,300) --> See nearby quakes!
432 km (268 mi) ENE of City of Balikpapan (East Kalimantan) (pop: 700,000) --> See nearby quakes!
439 km (273 mi) ENE of Balikpapan (East Kalimantan) (pop: 433,900) --> See nearby quakes!
Weather at epicenter at time of quake:
Overcast Clouds 18.6°C (65 F), humidity: 93%, wind: 1 m/s (2 kts) from WSW
Primary data source: BMKG (Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia)
Estimated released energy: 7.1 x 1011 joules (197 megawatt hours, equivalent to 169 tons of TNT) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeDepthLocationSource
M 4.710 kmMinahassa Peninsula, Sulawesi, IndonesiaBMKG
M 4.610 kmMinahasa, Sulawesi, IndonesiaUSGS
M 4.65 kmMINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIAEMSC

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