Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 241 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 241 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (150 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 151.54 km (94 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.0487 East, latitude -6.1724 South, depth = 151.54 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:56:40 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us200066vv. Unique identifier: us200066vv. Global time and date of event 26/06/16 / 2016-06-26 02:56:40 / June 26, 2016 @ 2:56 am UTC/GMT.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 241 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.0487° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.1724° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	151.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	241km NW 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	2016-06-26 02:56:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-26 03:11:29	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	369	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	3.905	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us200066vv	Id of event.
Event Code	200066vv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200066vv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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