Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 161 km NNW of Atambua, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 161 km NNW of Atambua, Indonesia (100 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 217.18 km (135 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/06/16 / 2016-06-06 04:54:20 / June 6, 2016 @ 4:54 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:54:20 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). 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: us200063k4. Id of event: us200063k4. Exact location of event, depth 217.18 km, 124.3057° East, -7.7701° South.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 161 km NNW of Atambua, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.3057° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.7701° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	217.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	161km NNW of Atambua, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-06 04:54:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-15 01:26:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	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	1.972	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us200063k4	Id of event.
Event Code	200063k4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200063k4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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