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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.5824S, 130.0342WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 207 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (129 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/03/16 / 2016-03-15 08:28:43 / March 15, 2016 @ 8:28 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 181.62 km (113 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20005as6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005as6. The temblor was picked up at 17:28:43 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 130.0342 East, latitude -6.5824 South, depth = 181.62 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 207 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.0342° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5824° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 181.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 207km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-15 08:28:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-27 10:22:00 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 1.873 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us20005as6 Id of event.
Event Code 20005as6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005as6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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