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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Papua in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.5559S, 131.3792WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Papua in Indonesia on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 00:02:06 / 12:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us10008in6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008in6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 00:02:06 / April 11, 2017 @ 12:02 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 131.3792° East, -0.5559° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sorong. Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Sorong (c. 125 500 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.3792° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.5559° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-11 00:02:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-21 23:58:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 2.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us10008in6 Id of event.
Event Code 10008in6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008in6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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