Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Molucca Sea

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Molucca Sea (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.7591 East, latitude 0.0103 North, depth = 64.21 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:48:08 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 64.21 km (40 miles). Unique identifier: us20005dw6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005dw6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/16 / 2016-03-27 12:48:08 / March 27, 2016 @ 12:48 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: Molucca Sea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.7591° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.0103° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Molucca Sea	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-27 12:48:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-08 13:05:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	246	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	0.97	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us20005dw6	Id of event.
Event Code	20005dw6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005dw6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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