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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Atambua in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.7365S, 124.5413WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Atambua in Indonesia on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 10:34:07 / November 21, 2016 @ 10:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:34:07 / 6:34 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007b3y. Event ids that are associated: us10007b3y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 124.5413° East, latitude -8.7365° South, depth = 24.85 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.85 km (15 miles).

The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Maubara (c. 16 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Gleno (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suai, Gleno, Liquica.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km NW of Atambua, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.5413° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.7365° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km NW of Atambua, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-21 10:34:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-21 12:12:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 369 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 1.047 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us10007b3y Id of event.
Event Code 10007b3y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007b3y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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