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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Australia


Earthquake location -63.0204S, 145.8521WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes South of Australia (0 miles) on Friday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:38:05 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.5 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/15 / 2015-08-21 00:38:05 / August 21, 2015 @ 12:38 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003gf0. Id of event: us20003gf0. Exact location of event, longitude 145.8521 East, latitude -63.0204 South, depth = 10.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: South of Australia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.8521° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -63.0204° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South of Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-21 00:38:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 22:24:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 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 15.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us20003gf0 Id of event.
Event Code 20003gf0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003gf0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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