Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - Maluku Sea, 154 km southeast of Manado, Sulawesi Baroh, Indonesia, on Sunday, 28 Feb 2021 7:16 am (GMT +9) -

Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - Maluku Sea, 154 km southeast of Manado, Sulawesi Baroh, Indonesia, on Sunday, 28 Feb 2021 7:16 am (GMT +9)

Moderate magnitude 4.0 earthquake at 10 km depth

27 Feb 22:22 UTC: First to report: EMSC after 6 minutes.
27 Feb 22:25: Now using data updates from BMKG
28 Feb 10:15: Magnitude recalculated from 3.9 to 4.0. Epicenter location corrected by 3.3 km (2.1 mi) towards E.
Date & time: 27 Feb 2021 22:16:20 UTC -
Local time at epicenter: Sunday, 28 Feb 2021 7:16 am (GMT +9)
Magnitude: 4
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 0.84°N / 126.08°E (Maluku Sea, Indonesia)
Nearest volcano: Tongkoko (121 km / 75 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
120 km (75 mi) SE of Bitung (pop: 137,400) --> See nearby quakes!
140 km (87 mi) ESE of Tondano (Kabupaten Minahasa) (pop: 33,300) --> See nearby quakes!
143 km (89 mi) ESE of Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (Kabupaten Minahasa Utara) (pop: 8,000) --> See nearby quakes!
145 km (90 mi) W of Ternate (pop: 101,700) --> See nearby quakes!
152 km (94 mi) ESE of Tomohon (pop: 27,600) --> See nearby quakes!
154 km (96 mi) ESE of Manado (pop: 451,900) --> See nearby quakes!
165 km (102 mi) W of Sofifi (Kota Tidore Kepulauan) (pop: 36,200) --> See nearby quakes!
236 km (147 mi) WSW of Tobelo (Kabupaten Halmahera Utara) (pop: 10,000) --> See nearby quakes!
337 km (210 mi) E of Gorontalo (pop: 144,200) --> See nearby quakes!
417 km (259 mi) ENE of Luwuk (pop: 47,800) --> See nearby quakes!
Weather at epicenter at time of quake:
Broken Clouds 28.3°C (83 F), humidity: 78%, wind: 7 m/s (13 kts) from N
Primary data source: BMKG (Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia)
Estimated released energy: 6.3 x 1010 joules (17.5 megawatt hours, equivalent to 15.1 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
4.010 kmNorthern Molucca Sea, IndonesiaBMKG
3.910 kmMOLUCCA SEA, IndonesiaEMSC

User reports for this quake (1)

User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale.
Molfetta / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / 2-5 s
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