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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Manokwari in Indonesia

Posted by admin on May 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.7094S, 133.3419WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Manokwari in Indonesia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 29.26 km (18 miles). Exact location of event, depth 29.26 km, 133.3419° East, -0.7094° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/16 / 2016-05-10 15:24:44 / May 10, 2016 @ 3:24 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005gbh. Id of event: us10005gbh. The temblor was detected at 00:24:44 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Manokwari (c. 53 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manokwari (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 84 km WNW of Manokwari, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 133.3419° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.7094° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km WNW of Manokwari, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-10 15:24:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-10 16:28:35 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 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 6.153 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 106 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 us10005gbh Id of event.
Event Code 10005gbh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gbh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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