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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 126 km SW of Abepura, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.2726S, 139.6401WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 126 km SW of Abepura, Indonesia (78 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 15:18:00 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 139.6401° East, -3.2726° South, depth 63.27 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63.27 km (39 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/12/19 / 2019-12-21 06:18:00 / December 21, 2019 @ 6:18 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70006pcr. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006pcr.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 126 km SW of Abepura, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.6401° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.2726° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km SW 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 2019-12-21 06:18:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-21 08:25:27 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 340 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 7.388 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us70006pcr Id of event.
Event Code 70006pcr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006pcr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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