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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Palue in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.987S, 122.7154WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Palue in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/03/20 / 2020-03-15 03:28:48 / March 15, 2020 @ 3:28 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:28:48 / 11:28 am (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, longitude 122.7154 East, latitude -7.987 South, depth = 251.66 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 251.66 km (156 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008c3m. Unique identifier: us70008c3m.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maumere. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Maumere (c. 47 600 pop).

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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 53 km N of Palue, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.7154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.987° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 251.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km N of Palue, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-15 03:28:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-20 03:37:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 0.799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us70008c3m Id of event.
Event Code 70008c3m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008c3m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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