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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 277 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia

Posted by admin on November 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.1535S, 128.9328WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 277 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (172 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 11:52:05 / October 17, 2018 @ 11:52 am. The temblor was detected at 20:52:05 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 171.28 km (106 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 171.28 km, 128.9328° East, -7.1535° South. Id of earthquake: us1000hg1z. Event ids that are associated: us1000hg1z.

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

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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: 277 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.9328° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1535° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 277km 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 2018-10-17 11:52:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-09 14:06:22 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 271 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 2.486 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us1000hg1z Id of event.
Event Code 1000hg1z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hg1z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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