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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Amahai in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.9534S, 129.2524WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia on Monday. The temblor was reported at 19:32:41 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 129.2524° East, latitude -3.9534° South, depth = 48.62 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.62 km (30 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000besj. Unique identifier: us6000besj. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/20 / 2020-08-10 19:32:41 / August 10, 2020 @ 7:32 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 77 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.2524° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.9534° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km SSE 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 2020-08-10 19:32:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-19 16:52:35 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 246 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 3.162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us6000besj Id of event.
Event Code 6000besj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000besj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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