Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 261 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 261 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia (162 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:52:14 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000p0bu. Unique identifier: us7000p0bu. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/24 / 2024-12-08 21:52:14 / December 8, 2024 @ 9:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 118.308 km, 130.4423° East, -6.1248° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 118.308 km (74 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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 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: 261 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.4423° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.1248° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	118.308 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	261 km WSW 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	2024-12-08 21:52:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-24 00:07:58	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.68	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	95	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	us7000p0bu	Id of event.
Event Code	7000p0bu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000p0bu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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