Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Ambon in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 273 km SSW of Ambon, Indonesia (170 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:56:32 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/04/24 / 2024-04-23 05:56:32 / April 23, 2024 @ 5:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.5428 East, latitude -6.0878 South, depth = 400.274 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mt4v. Id of event: us6000mt4v. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 400.274 km (249 miles).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 273 km SSW of Ambon, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.5428° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.0878° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	400.274 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	273 km SSW of Ambon, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-23 05:56:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-23 06:16:06	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	312	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.819	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us6000mt4v	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mt4v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mt4v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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