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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Tual in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.1418S, 132.4285WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Tual in Indonesia. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:31:54 / 1:31 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/21 / 2021-01-20 01:31:54 / January 20, 2021 @ 1:31 am. 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: us6000dcna. Unique identifier: us6000dcna. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 132.4285 East, latitude -6.1418 South, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tual (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Tual (c. 39 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 67 km SSW of Tual, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.4285° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1418° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km SSW of Tual, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-20 01:31:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-31 02:10:15 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 284 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 2.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us6000dcna Id of event.
Event Code 6000dcna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dcna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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