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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Palue in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.1791S, 123.0432WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 147 km NNE of Palue, Indonesia (91 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 584.47 km (363 miles). Global time and date of event 29/08/16 / 2016-08-29 20:07:36 / August 29, 2016 @ 8:07 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:07:36 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 123.0432° East, latitude -7.1791° South, depth = 584.47 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006jlp. Id of event: us10006jlp.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 147 km NNE of Palue, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.0432° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1791° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 584.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km NNE of Palue, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-29 20:07:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-08 23:14:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 312 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 1.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us10006jlp Id of event.
Event Code 10006jlp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006jlp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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