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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Molibagu in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.3154S, 123.924WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 km SW of Molibagu, Indonesia (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 14:14:07 / June 29, 2015 @ 2:14 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 218.59 km (136 miles). Event id: us10002mcg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mcg. Exact location of event, depth 218.59 km, 123.924° East, 0.3154° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:14:07 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 10 km SW of Molibagu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.924° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.3154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 218.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW of Molibagu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-29 14:14:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 16:33:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 1.773 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 147 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 us10002mcg Id of event.
Event Code 10002mcg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mcg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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