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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.0609S, 129.2962WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia (0 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 16:26:06 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 173.29 km (108 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 129.2962 East, latitude -7.0609 South, depth = 173.29 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/20 / 2020-12-17 16:26:06 / December 17, 2020 @ 4:26 pm. Event id: us6000d1ve. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d1ve. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 eight, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.2962° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.0609° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-17 16:26:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-13 16:56:42 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 2.186 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us6000d1ve Id of event.
Event Code 6000d1ve An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d1ve, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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