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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 87 km NE of Poso, Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.9405S, 121.3933WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Poso in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.75 km (23 miles). Event id: us100042sn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100042sn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 121.3933° East, latitude -0.9405° South, depth = 37.75 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/12/15 / 2015-12-02 19:32:54 / December 2, 2015 @ 7:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:32:54 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Poso.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 87 km NE of Poso, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.3933° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9405° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km NE of Poso, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-02 19:32:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-03 00:39:46 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 340 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 2.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us100042sn Id of event.
Event Code 100042sn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100042sn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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