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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Nabire in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.0607S, 135.4603WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Nabire in Indonesia on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/15 / 2015-08-25 23:30:21 / August 25, 2015 @ 11:30 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 135.4603 East, latitude -4.0607 South, depth = 50.35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.35 km (31 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us100034xc. Unique identifier: us100034xc. The temblor was detected at 08:30:21 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Nabire (c. 43 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nabire (min 5000 pop).

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 76 km S of Nabire, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.4603° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.0607° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km S of Nabire, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-25 23:30:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-25 23:57:52 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 340 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 3.4 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us100034xc Id of event.
Event Code 100034xc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034xc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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