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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Tual in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.4376S, 132.6953WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Tual in Indonesia on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/08/24 / 2024-08-13 18:52:00 / August 13, 2024 @ 6:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:52:00 / 6:52 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000njwf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000njwf. Exact location of event, longitude 132.6953 East, latitude -6.4376 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Tual (c. 39 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tual.

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 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: 89 km S of Tual, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.6953° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4376° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89 km S 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 2024-08-13 18:52:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-13 19:21:13 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.523 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 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 us6000njwf Id of event.
Event Code 6000njwf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000njwf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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