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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.0721S, 129.6976WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia (0 miles) on Tuesday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:48:01 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 129.6976° East, -7.0721° South, depth 147.47 km. Unique identifier: us6000di3s. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000di3s. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/21 / 2021-02-16 15:48:01 / February 16, 2021 @ 3:48 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 147.47 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.6976° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.0721° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.47 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 2021-02-16 15:48:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-16 17:47:21 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 259 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 1.827 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us6000di3s Id of event.
Event Code 6000di3s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000di3s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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