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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Piru in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.9064S, 127.8266WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Piru in Indonesia on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.8266 East, latitude -2.9064 South, depth = 53.64 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.64 km (33 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/16 / 2016-09-29 10:27:36 / September 29, 2016 @ 10:27 am. The temblor was detected at 19:27:36 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006trv. Unique identifier: us10006trv.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ambon (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 44 km WNW of Piru, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.8266° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9064° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km WNW of Piru, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-29 10:27:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-29 10:39:10 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 326 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 3.682 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us10006trv Id of event.
Event Code 10006trv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006trv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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