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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 179 km W of Tual, Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.6334S, 131.127WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 179 km W of Tual, Indonesia (111 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.16 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:51:09 / 2:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/08/15 / 2015-08-22 05:51:09 / August 22, 2015 @ 5:51 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20003ggc. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003ggc. Exact location, longitude 131.127° East, latitude -5.6334° South, depth = 80.16 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 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: 179 km W of Tual, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.127° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6334° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 179km W of Tual, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-22 05:51:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 13:13:30 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 2.34 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 103 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 us20003ggc Id of event.
Event Code 20003ggc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003ggc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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