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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 40 km ESE of Saparua, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.7569S, 128.9713WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Saparua in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.9713 East, latitude -3.7569 South, depth = 50.41 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/08/15 / 2015-08-17 07:17:19 / August 17, 2015 @ 7:17 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:17:19 / 4:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.41 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us100032sg. Event ids that are associated: us100032sg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ambon, Amahai.

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km ESE of Saparua, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.9713° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.7569° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km ESE of Saparua, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-17 07:17:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-17 15:19:51 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 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 us100032sg Id of event.
Event Code 100032sg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032sg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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