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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Manado in Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.3226S, 124.4017WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 208 km NNW of Manado, Indonesia (129 miles) on Sunday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:45:03 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/03/19 / 2019-03-31 15:45:03 / March 31, 2019 @ 3:45 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000kcf8. Event ids that are associated: us2000kcf8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 351.86 km (219 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 124.4017° East, latitude 3.3226° North, depth = 351.86 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten 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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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: 208 km NNW of Manado, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.4017° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.3226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 351.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 208km NNW of Manado, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-31 15:45:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-09 14:21:43 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 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 3.898 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000kcf8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000kcf8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kcf8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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