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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.738S, 128.7781WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 280 km W of Saumlaki, Indonesia (174 miles) on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/19 / 2019-01-19 11:41:41 / January 19, 2019 @ 11:41 am. Exact location of event, longitude 128.7781 East, latitude -7.738 South, depth = 93.48 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jbzp. Id of event: us2000jbzp. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:41:41 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). 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 93.48 km (58 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 280 km W of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.7781° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.738° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 280km W 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 2019-01-19 11:41:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-17 12:11:15 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 2.509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us2000jbzp Id of event.
Event Code 2000jbzp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jbzp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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