Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Banda Sea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Banda Sea (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/18 / 2018-01-29 04:35:13 / January 29, 2018 @ 4:35 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 13:35:13 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.8392 East, latitude -6.954 South, depth = 294.77 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 294.77 km (183 miles). Event id: us2000czkd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000czkd.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: Banda Sea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.8392° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.954° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	294.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Banda Sea	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-29 04:35:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-27 02:28:49	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	259	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	3.579	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us2000czkd	Id of event.
Event Code	2000czkd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000czkd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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