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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 5 km ESE of Mamasa, Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.9551S, 119.427WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mamasa in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 18.83 km (12 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/11/18 / 2018-11-14 21:20:40 / November 14, 2018 @ 9:20 pm. Event id: us1000hv33. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hv33. Exact location, longitude 119.427° East, latitude -2.9551° South, depth = 18.83 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:20:40 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palopo, Majene, Mamuju. Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Majene (c. 37 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km ESE of Mamasa, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.427° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9551° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ESE 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 2018-11-14 21:20:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-24 02:37:04 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 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 2.07 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 71 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 us1000hv33 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hv33 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hv33, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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