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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 299 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.3583S, 130.1483WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 299 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia (186 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 130.1483° East, -6.3583° South, depth 163.057 km. Event id: us6000mua3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mua3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 163.057 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/04/24 / 2024-04-27 10:46:31 / April 27, 2024 @ 10:46 am. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:46:31 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 299 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.1483° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3583° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 163.057 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 299 km WSW 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 2024-04-27 10:46:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-27 12:50:11 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 369 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.84 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us6000mua3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mua3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mua3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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