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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.5268S, 130.7022WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 171 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (106 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 130.7022 East, latitude -6.5268 South, depth = 90.02 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100031z2. Unique identifier: us100031z2. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/07/15 / 2015-07-25 20:56:24 / July 25, 2015 @ 8:56 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 90.02 km (56 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:56:24 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 171 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.7022° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5268° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-25 20:56:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-22 04:32:14 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 284 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 1.562 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us100031z2 Id of event.
Event Code 100031z2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031z2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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