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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.0007S, 129.2903WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 247 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (153 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 168.95 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:22:48 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20003p11. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003p11. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 01:22:48 / September 14, 2015 @ 1:22 am. Exact location, longitude 129.2903° East, latitude -7.0007° South, depth = 168.95 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 247 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.2903° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.0007° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 168.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247km WNW 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 2015-09-14 01:22:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 00:46:21 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 246 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 5.012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us20003p11 Id of event.
Event Code 20003p11 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003p11, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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