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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Kefamenanu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.165S, 124.0809WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Kefamenanu in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 14:11:46 / October 1, 2018 @ 2:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.0809 East, latitude -9.165 South, depth = 94.15 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:11:46 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h4zj. Unique identifier: us1000h4zj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 94.15 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atambua, Soe, Kefamenanu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 53 km NW of Kefamenanu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.0809° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.165° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NW of Kefamenanu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-01 14:11:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-01 14:36:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 326 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 0.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us1000h4zj Id of event.
Event Code 1000h4zj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h4zj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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