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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Nabire in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.4699S, 135.4664WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Nabire in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.03 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/07/15 / 2015-07-12 00:50:25 / July 12, 2015 @ 12:50 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:50:25 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 135.4664 East, latitude -3.4699 South, depth = 45.03 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002wui. Id of event: us10002wui.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nabire. The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Nabire (c. 43 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km S of Nabire, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.4664° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.4699° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Nabire, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-12 00:50:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-08 18:29:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us10002wui Id of event.
Event Code 10002wui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002wui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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