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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Sorong in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.811S, 131.0891WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Sorong in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, 131.0891° East, -0.811° South, depth 38.71 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 16:43:54 / September 24, 2015 @ 4:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nt6. Id of event: us20003nt6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.71 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:43:54 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sorong. Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Sorong (c. 125 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 19 km WNW of Sorong, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.0891° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.811° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WNW of Sorong, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-24 16:43:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 20:15:58 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 234 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 2.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 us20003nt6 Id of event.
Event Code 20003nt6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nt6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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