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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.1621S, 129.4504WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 143.52 km, 129.4504° East, -7.1621° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/04/17 / 2017-04-13 00:07:32 / April 13, 2017 @ 12:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 143.52 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008j9r. Id of event: us10008j9r. The temblor was detected at 00:07:32 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 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: Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.4504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1621° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-13 00:07:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-28 22:23:16 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 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 2.005 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us10008j9r Id of event.
Event Code 10008j9r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008j9r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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