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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Amahai in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.275S, 128.7793WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002xd9. Id of event: us10002xd9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.8 km (44 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:31:36 / 8:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 23:31:36 / August 2, 2015 @ 11:31 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 128.7793 East, latitude -3.275 South, depth = 70.8 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ambon, Amahai (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km WNW of Amahai, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.7793° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.275° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Amahai, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-02 23:31:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-02 23:49:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 3.482 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us10002xd9 Id of event.
Event Code 10002xd9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xd9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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