Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Labuan Bajo in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Labuan Bajo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 119.8829 East, latitude -8.4622 South, depth = 181.826 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 181.826 km (113 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/24 / 2024-10-26 14:21:56 / October 26, 2024 @ 2:21 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:21:56 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nnc7. Event ids that are associated: us7000nnc7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 4 km (2 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km N of Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.8829° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.4622° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	181.826 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km N of Labuan Bajo, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-26 14:21:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-26 15:27:06	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	326	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	2.335	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	69	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	us7000nnc7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nnc7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nnc7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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