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


Earthquake location -3.7452S, 128.4129WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Ambon in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 04/08/24 / 2024-08-04 08:03:25 / August 4, 2024 @ 8:03 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.4129 East, latitude -3.7452 South, depth = 128.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000ni0z. Event ids that are associated: us6000ni0z. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.29 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:03:25 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai, Ambon. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km ESE of Ambon, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.4129° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7452° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km ESE 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 2024-08-04 08:03:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-04 08:23:33 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.676 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us6000ni0z Id of event.
Event Code 6000ni0z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ni0z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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