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Light earthquake 4 mag, Banda Sea


Earthquake location -6.348S, 129.0983WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes Banda Sea (0 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 217.9 km, 129.0983° East, -6.348° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 19:04:06 / July 6, 2019 @ 7:04 pm. Unique identifier: us70004lki. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004lki. The temblor was reported at 04:04:06 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 217.9 km (135 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.0983° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.348° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 217.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Banda Sea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-06 19:04:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 04:53:26 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 2.721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us70004lki Id of event.
Event Code 70004lki An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004lki, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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