Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 261 km NNW of Boroko, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 261 km NNW of Boroko, Indonesia (162 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/05/19 / 2019-05-05 14:40:04 / May 5, 2019 @ 2:40 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:40:04 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003h17. Id of event: us70003h17. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 540.19 km, 122.6381° East, 3.1909° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 540.19 km (336 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 261 km NNW of Boroko, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.6381° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.1909° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	540.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	261km NNW of Boroko, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-05 14:40:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-05 15:08:57	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	298	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	2.776	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us70003h17	Id of event.
Event Code	70003h17	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003h17,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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