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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Mamasa in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.0079S, 119.4294WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Mamasa in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/11/18 / 2018-11-18 11:22:42 / November 18, 2018 @ 11:22 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:22:42 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.4294 East, latitude -3.0079 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000htie. Id of event: us1000htie.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palopo, Majene, Mamuju (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Majene (c. 37 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SE of Mamasa, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.4294° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.0079° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE of Mamasa, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-18 11:22:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-18 12:07:07 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 312 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 2.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000htie Id of event.
Event Code 1000htie An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000htie, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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