Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Amahusu in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 298 km S of Amahusu, Indonesia (185 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 128.0287 East, latitude -6.4268 South, depth = 323.5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 323.5 km (201 miles). Event id: us1000bmrl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bmrl. Global time and date of event 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 14:32:18 / December 6, 2017 @ 2:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:32:18 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter).

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 thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

Did you feel it?

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: 298 km S of Amahusu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Amahusu Indonesia

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.0287° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.4268° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	323.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	298km S of Amahusu, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-06 14:32:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-06 14:48:33	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	312	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	3.593	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	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	us1000bmrl	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bmrl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bmrl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Amahusu in Indonesia

Did you feel it?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information