Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Abepura in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Abepura in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.6189 East, latitude -2.9196 South, depth = 40.4 km. The temblor was detected at 21:15:27 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.4 km (25 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ay0y. Id of event: us1000ay0y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/10/17 / 2017-10-28 12:15:27 / October 28, 2017 @ 12:15 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vanimo, Vanimo, Jayapura (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (28 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vanimo (c. 11 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vanimo (c. 9 800 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 31 km S of Abepura, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.6189° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.9196° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km S of Abepura, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-28 12:15:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-28 12:44:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	340	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	8.359	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us1000ay0y	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ay0y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ay0y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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