Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Abepura in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Abepura in Indonesia. 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 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/05/19 / 2019-05-29 14:15:36 / May 29, 2019 @ 2:15 pm. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 140.3803° East, -3.2051° South. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:15:36 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60003tlr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60003tlr.

Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jayapura, Abepura.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 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: 67 km SSW of Abepura, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.3803° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-3.2051° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km SSW of Abepura, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-29 14:15:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-29 14:55:45	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	312	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	7.073	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us60003tlr	Id of event.
Event Code	60003tlr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60003tlr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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