Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Saumlaki in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 272 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (169 miles) on Monday. Global time and date of event 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 04:02:57 / December 16, 2019 @ 4:02 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 179.72 km (112 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 129.8676° East, latitude -5.9565° South, depth = 179.72 km. Event id: us70006tse. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006tse. The temblor was reported at 13:02:57 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 272 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.8676° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.9565° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	179.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	272km 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	2019-12-16 04:02:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-07 03:30:58	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	2.463	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	us70006tse	Id of event.
Event Code	70006tse	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006tse,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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