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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Owen Fracture Zone region


Earthquake location 12.6765S, 57.1395WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Owen Fracture Zone region (0 miles). Event id: us6000nu2x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nu2x. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:56:46 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 00:56:46 / September 20, 2024 @ 12:56 am. Exact location of event, longitude 57.1395 East, latitude 12.6765 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: Owen Fracture Zone region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.1395° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Owen Fracture Zone region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-20 00:56:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-02 02:23:40 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 24.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us6000nu2x Id of event.
Event Code 6000nu2x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nu2x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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