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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 258 km S of Amahusu, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.0232S, 127.7194WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 258 km S of Amahusu, Indonesia (160 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:51:23 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 127.7194° East, -6.0232° South, depth 404.16 km. Unique identifier: us10007f6e. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007f6e. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 404.16 km (251 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 14:51:23 / December 6, 2016 @ 2:51 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 258 km S of Amahusu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.7194° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0232° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 404.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 258km S of Amahusu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-06 14:51:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 15:45:41 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 284 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 4.051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us10007f6e Id of event.
Event Code 10007f6e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007f6e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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