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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 298 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 22, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.5328S, 129.019WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 298 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (185 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 224.37 km (139 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 129.019 East, latitude -6.5328 South, depth = 224.37 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:37:02 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000j5tj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j5tj. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/01/19 / 2019-01-01 14:37:02 / January 1, 2019 @ 2:37 pm UTC/GMT.

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 five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 298 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.019° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5328° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 224.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 298km 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 2019-01-01 14:37:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-22 14:53:22 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 259 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 2.681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us2000j5tj Id of event.
Event Code 2000j5tj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j5tj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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