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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Dobo in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.5988S, 133.9954WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 131 km N of Dobo, Indonesia (81 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 15:42:24 / March 16, 2016 @ 3:42 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.6 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20005a64. Event ids that are associated: us20005a64. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:42:24 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 133.9954 East, latitude -4.5988 South, depth = 30.6 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 131 km N of Dobo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 133.9954° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.5988° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km N of Dobo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-16 15:42:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 01:42:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 340 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 4.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us20005a64 Id of event.
Event Code 20005a64 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005a64, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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