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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 245 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 2, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.3729S, 129.7502WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 245 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (152 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us100061z5. Unique identifier: us100061z5. The temblor was picked up at 01:55:13 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 129.7502° East, latitude -6.3729° South, depth = 122.64 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122.64 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/16 / 2016-07-03 16:55:13 / July 3, 2016 @ 4:55 pm UTC/GMT.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 245 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.7502° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3729° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 245km 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 2016-07-03 16:55:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-02 13:45:07 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 271 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 4.239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us100061z5 Id of event.
Event Code 100061z5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061z5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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