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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Kefamenanu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.1939S, 124.2693WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Kefamenanu in Indonesia on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 19:09:04 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/15 / 2015-12-06 11:09:04 / December 6, 2015 @ 11:09 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004fy2. Unique identifier: us20004fy2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.2693 East, latitude -9.1939 South, depth = 102.41 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 102.41 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soe, Atambua, Kefamenanu. The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 36 km NW of Kefamenanu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.2693° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.1939° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km NW of Kefamenanu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-06 11:09:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 07:29:13 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 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 0.557 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us20004fy2 Id of event.
Event Code 20004fy2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004fy2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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