Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Clare in Australia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Clare in Australia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 05:53:33 / May 14, 2020 @ 5:53 am. Exact location, longitude 138.7381° East, latitude -33.7557° South, depth = 7.05 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.05 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fvb. Id of event: us70009fvb. The temblor was reported at 15:23:33 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Port Pirie (c. 13 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Nuriootpa (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries, Australia (c. 21 516 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port Pirie, Nuriootpa (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km NE of Clare, Australia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.7381° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.7557° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km NE of Clare, Australia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-14 05:53:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-14 06:49:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	570	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	285	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	3.05	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us70009fvb	Id of event.
Event Code	70009fvb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009fvb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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