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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 124 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.1823S, 129.6526WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 124 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia (77 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 129.6526° East, -4.1823° South, depth 35 km. Event id: us20004g1t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004g1t. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/15 / 2015-12-10 00:06:30 / December 10, 2015 @ 12:06 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:06:30 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 124 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.6526° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.1823° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km 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 2015-12-10 00:06:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-10 03:53:09 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 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 2.879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us20004g1t Id of event.
Event Code 20004g1t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004g1t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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