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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Palue in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.0812S, 122.6634WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Palue in Indonesia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 122.6634 East, latitude -8.0812 South, depth = 207.12 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 207.12 km (129 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20008trd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008trd. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:49:14 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/17 / 2017-03-14 17:49:14 / March 14, 2017 @ 5:49 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Maumere (c. 47 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maumere (min 5000 pop).

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 fourteen 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 43 km N of Palue, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.6634° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.0812° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 207.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km N 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 2017-03-14 17:49:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-08 20:35:02 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 246 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 0.693 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us20008trd Id of event.
Event Code 20008trd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008trd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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