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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.8256S, 129.7895WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 209 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (130 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 163.17 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.7895 East, latitude -6.8256 South, depth = 163.17 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 02:08:42 / August 2, 2015 @ 2:08 am. The temblor was reported at 11:08:42 / 11:08 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10002x8h. Event ids that are associated: us10002x8h.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-eight 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. 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: 209 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.7895° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.8256° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 163.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 209km NW 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 2015-08-02 02:08:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-26 04:01:52 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 259 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 1.887 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us10002x8h Id of event.
Event Code 10002x8h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002x8h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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