Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 208 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 208 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (129 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 17/10/19 / 2019-10-17 17:12:41 / October 17, 2019 @ 5:12 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 02:12:41 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 170.06 km (106 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 130.0861° East, -6.5179° South, depth 170.06 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005v2r. Unique identifier: us70005v2r.

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 five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 208 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.0861° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.5179° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	170.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	208km 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	2019-10-17 17:12:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-17 21:02:40	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	1.888	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us70005v2r	Id of event.
Event Code	70005v2r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005v2r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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