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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.384S, 130.0867WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 220 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (137 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 130.0867 East, latitude -6.384 South, depth = 134.56 km. 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: 04/08/19 / 2019-08-04 12:46:27 / August 4, 2019 @ 12:46 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 134.56 km (84 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:46:27 / 9:46 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600052z9. Id of event: us600052z9.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 220 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.0867° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.384° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 134.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 220km NW 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 2019-08-04 12:46:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-25 07:36:27 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 1.992 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us600052z9 Id of event.
Event Code 600052z9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600052z9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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