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


Earthquake location -5.9185S, 130.6914WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 229 km W of Tual, Indonesia (142 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 99.47 km (62 miles). Id of earthquake: us10007pve. Event ids that are associated: us10007pve. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.6914 East, latitude -5.9185 South, depth = 99.47 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:15:44 / 1:15 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/12/16 / 2016-12-18 16:15:44 / December 18, 2016 @ 4:15 pm. 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 six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 229 km W of Tual, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.6914° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.9185° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 229km W of Tual, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-18 16:15:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-16 16:38:56 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 2.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us10007pve Id of event.
Event Code 10007pve An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007pve, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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