Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 160 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 160 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia (99 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006u9u. Unique identifier: us70006u9u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/12/19 / 2019-12-18 18:45:22 / December 18, 2019 @ 6:45 pm. The temblor was reported at 03:45:22 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35.88 km, 139.2372° East, -2.1054° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.88 km (22 miles).

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 three and in the last 365 days ninety-one 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 160 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.2372° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.1054° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	160km WNW 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	2019-12-18 18:45:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-06 23:43:10	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	298	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	1.521	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us70006u9u	Id of event.
Event Code	70006u9u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006u9u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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