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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Abepura in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.1881S, 138.6814WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 217 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia (135 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004b6q. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004b6q. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.6814 East, latitude -2.1881 South, depth = 35.06 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:04:36 / 9:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35.06 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 00:04:36 / December 23, 2015 @ 12:04 am.

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. 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 fourty-one 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. 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: 217 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.6814° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.1881° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 217km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-23 00:04:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-06 00:34:38 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 271 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 6.467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us10004b6q Id of event.
Event Code 10004b6q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004b6q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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