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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Taniwel in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.7321S, 128.8114WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Taniwel in Indonesia on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 13/03/18 / 2018-03-13 05:08:55 / March 13, 2018 @ 5:08 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000d7fu. Event ids that are associated: us1000d7fu. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:08:55 / 2:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.99 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 128.8114 East, latitude -2.7321 South, depth = 45.99 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amahai (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 39 km ENE of Taniwel, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.8114° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.7321° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km ENE of Taniwel, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-13 05:08:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-29 12:10:07 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 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 3.438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us1000d7fu Id of event.
Event Code 1000d7fu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d7fu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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