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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Enarotali in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.7353S, 137.5253WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 132 km E of Enarotali, Indonesia (82 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/04/18 / 2018-04-14 03:29:20 / April 14, 2018 @ 3:29 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000e02x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000e02x. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.11 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 137.5253 East, latitude -3.7353 South, depth = 52.11 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:29:20 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 132 km E of Enarotali, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.5253° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7353° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km E of Enarotali, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-14 03:29:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-14 03:52:55 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 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 5.329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us2000e02x Id of event.
Event Code 2000e02x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e02x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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