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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Saumlaki in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.7823S, 129.426WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 245 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (152 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006d4d. Unique identifier: us10006d4d. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.426 East, latitude -6.7823 South, depth = 130.76 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:53:58 / 6:53 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/16 / 2016-08-11 21:53:58 / August 11, 2016 @ 9:53 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 130.76 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.426° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.7823° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 245km 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 2016-08-11 21:53:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-20 22:45:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 2.207 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 83 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 us10006d4d Id of event.
Event Code 10006d4d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006d4d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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