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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 284 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia

Posted by admin on June 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.7959S, 129.0163WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 284 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (176 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 22:48:24 / May 17, 2016 @ 10:48 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:48:24 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 183.55 km, 129.0163° East, -6.7959° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 183.55 km (114 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005jmg. Id of event: us10005jmg.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 284 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.0163° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.7959° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 183.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 284km WNW 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 2016-05-17 22:48:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-12 04:03:10 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 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 2.552 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us10005jmg Id of event.
Event Code 10005jmg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005jmg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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