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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Amahai in Indonesia

Posted by admin on July 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.9331S, 129.4578WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000ac2k. Event ids that are associated: us7000ac2k. Global time and date of event 20/06/20 / 2020-06-20 13:39:06 / June 20, 2020 @ 1:39 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:39:06 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.4578 East, latitude -3.9331 South, depth = 92 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 92 km (57 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amahai. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 88 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.4578° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.9331° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-20 13:39:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-06 15:20:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us7000ac2k Id of event.
Event Code 7000ac2k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ac2k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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