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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 2 km W of Magepanda, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.5492S, 122.026WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Magepanda in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.026 East, latitude -8.5492 South, depth = 171.26 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:15:46 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100040h7. Ids that are associated to the event: us100040h7. The epicenter was at a depth of 171.26 km (106 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/11/15 / 2015-11-23 14:15:46 / November 23, 2015 @ 2:15 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Ende (c. 77 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Maumere (c. 47 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ende, Maumere (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 2 km W of Magepanda, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.026° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.5492° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km W of Magepanda, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-23 14:15:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-23 16:11:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 0.226 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us100040h7 Id of event.
Event Code 100040h7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040h7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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