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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.9948S, 129.2635WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 250 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (155 miles). Exact location of event, depth 151.39 km, 129.2635° East, -6.9948° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/05/18 / 2018-05-07 20:12:39 / May 7, 2018 @ 8:12 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 151.39 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e2yj. Unique identifier: us1000e2yj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:12:39 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 250 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.2635° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9948° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 250km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-07 20:12:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-23 17:34:55 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 284 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 2.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us1000e2yj Id of event.
Event Code 1000e2yj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e2yj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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