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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Amahai in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.2205S, 129.6655WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 128 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia (80 miles) on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004fye. Unique identifier: us20004fye. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.25 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:07:51 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 129.6655° East, -4.2205° South, depth 40.25 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 17:07:51 / December 9, 2015 @ 5:07 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 128 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.6655° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.2205° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 128km SE of Amahai, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-09 17:07:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-09 19:44:22 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 354 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 2.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us20004fye Id of event.
Event Code 20004fye An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004fye, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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