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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Galesong in Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.1608S, 118.9325WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Galesong in Indonesia on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.97 km (9 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20004h9w. Unique identifier: us20004h9w. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/12/15 / 2015-12-14 02:17:23 / December 14, 2015 @ 2:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:17:23 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 14.97 km, 118.9325° East, -5.1608° South.

Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Makassar (c. 1 321 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Galesong (c. 83 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Makassar, Galesong (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 51 km WNW of Galesong, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.9325° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1608° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km WNW of Galesong, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-14 02:17:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 04:37:25 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 259 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 0.828 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us20004h9w Id of event.
Event Code 20004h9w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004h9w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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