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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Laikit in Laikit II (Dimembe) in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.8703S, 125.1267WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 153 km N of Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Indonesia (95 miles) on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us20002ygm. Event ids that are associated: us20002ygm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 02:55:00 / July 19, 2015 @ 2:55 am. The temblor was detected at 10:55:00 / 10:55 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 85.75 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 125.1267 East, latitude 2.8703 North, depth = 85.75 km.

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 153 km N of Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1267° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.8703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153km N of Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-19 02:55:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-19 03:32:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us20002ygm Id of event.
Event Code 20002ygm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ygm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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