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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Hila in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.2931S, 127.9037WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Hila in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, 127.9037° East, -3.2931° South, depth 64.45 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 00:38:24 / January 25, 2020 @ 12:38 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60007fb1. Event ids that are associated: us60007fb1. The temblor was reported at 09:38:24 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.45 km (40 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ambon. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 37 km NNW of Hila, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.9037° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.2931° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NNW of Hila, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-25 00:38:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-25 00:55:24 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 4.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us60007fb1 Id of event.
Event Code 60007fb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007fb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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