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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Amahusu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.7776S, 128.0049WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Amahusu in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/19 / 2019-01-06 06:16:01 / January 6, 2019 @ 6:16 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 102.05 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.0049 East, latitude -3.7776 South, depth = 102.05 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000j7vr. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j7vr. The temblor was picked up at 15:16:01 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (13 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ambon (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve 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 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: 16 km WSW of Amahusu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.0049° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7776° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WSW of Amahusu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-06 06:16:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-03 06:25:00 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 246 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 4.321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us2000j7vr Id of event.
Event Code 2000j7vr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j7vr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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