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Earthquake: M 4.2 quake strikes near Manokwari in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.2614S, 134.3703WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (mg/mb) was reported Tuesday, 157 kilometers (98 miles) from Manokwari in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 12:24:32 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 28.6 km (18 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-09 03:24:32 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 134.3703 East, latitude -2.2614 South, depth 28.6 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 134.3703° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.2614° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km SSE of Manokwari, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-09 15:24:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-09 16:57:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 271 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 usc000tncm Id of event.
Event Code c000tncm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usc000tncm A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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