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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 194 km SW of Abepura, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.8787S, 139.3511WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 194 km SW of Abepura, Indonesia (121 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 139.3511° East, -3.8787° South, depth 75.52 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 75.52 km (47 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/03/20 / 2020-03-07 04:37:58 / March 7, 2020 @ 4:37 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008bi9. Id of event: us60008bi9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 13:37:58 / 1:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 194 km SW of Abepura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.3511° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.8787° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 194km 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 2020-03-07 04:37:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-07 04:58:18 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 9.5 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us60008bi9 Id of event.
Event Code 60008bi9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008bi9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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