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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Enarotali in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.1342S, 137.3243WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 138 km NE of Enarotali, Indonesia (86 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.96 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us100041ks. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041ks. Global time and date of event 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 20:00:01 / November 26, 2015 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:00:01 / 5:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 137.3243 East, latitude -3.1342 South, depth = 53.96 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 138 km NE of Enarotali, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.3243° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.1342° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km NE of Enarotali, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-26 20:00:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 21:03:12 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 312 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 5.072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us100041ks Id of event.
Event Code 100041ks An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041ks, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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