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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.0734S, 130.4038WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 230 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (143 miles). Event id: us20005k6p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005k6p. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:09:24 / 12:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 130.4038° East, -6.0734° South, depth 26.96 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/04/16 / 2016-04-20 15:09:24 / April 20, 2016 @ 3:09 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.96 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 230 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.4038° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0734° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 230km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-20 15:09:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-05 04:04:11 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 298 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 2.094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 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 us20005k6p Id of event.
Event Code 20005k6p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005k6p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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