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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Molibagu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.2091S, 124.4344WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 82 km SE of Molibagu, Indonesia (51 miles) on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006q1h. Id of event: us60006q1h. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.4344 East, latitude -0.2091 South, depth = 54.66 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/12/19 / 2019-12-11 02:13:10 / December 11, 2019 @ 2:13 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.66 km (34 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:13:10 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 82 km SE of Molibagu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.4344° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.2091° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km SE of Molibagu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-11 02:13:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-11 02:44:27 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 369 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 1.856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us60006q1h Id of event.
Event Code 60006q1h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006q1h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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