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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Jayapura in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.9254S, 140.5928WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Jayapura in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/12/16 / 2016-12-07 02:01:19 / December 7, 2016 @ 2:01 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 11:01:19 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us200080r6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200080r6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.12 km (10 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 140.5928 East, latitude -1.9254 South, depth = 16.12 km.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abepura, Jayapura (min 5000 pop).

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 fourty-five 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. Each 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km N of Jayapura, Indonesia. This data 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 140.5928° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.9254° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km N of Jayapura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-07 02:01:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-16 03:57:47 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 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 8.394 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us200080r6 Id of event.
Event Code 200080r6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200080r6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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