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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Sorong in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.9786S, 131.2049WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Sorong in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.04 km (9 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003mct. Unique identifier: us10003mct. The temblor was reported at 17:56:20 / 5:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 15.04 km, 131.2049° East, -0.9786° South. Global time and date of event 25/09/15 / 2015-09-25 08:56:20 / September 25, 2015 @ 8:56 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sorong. Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Sorong (c. 125 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSW of Sorong, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.2049° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9786° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW 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 2015-09-25 08:56:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-21 09:23:01 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 2.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us10003mct Id of event.
Event Code 10003mct An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003mct, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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