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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sorong in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.5693S, 130.8253WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Sorong in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:50:23 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 130.8253° East, -0.5693° South, depth 52.46 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 18:50:23 / September 24, 2015 @ 6:50 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.46 km (33 miles). Unique identifier: us20003nsq. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003nsq.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sorong. Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Sorong (c. 125 500 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 58 km NW of Sorong, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.8253° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.5693° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NW of Sorong, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-24 18:50:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 23:02:48 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 2.733 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us20003nsq Id of event.
Event Code 20003nsq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nsq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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