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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Jayapura in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.9637S, 140.4571WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Jayapura in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.95 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/12/16 / 2016-12-18 23:27:25 / December 18, 2016 @ 11:27 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.4571 East, latitude -1.9637 South, depth = 14.95 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:27:25 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us200082fu. Event ids that are associated: us200082fu.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abepura, Jayapura (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km NNW of Jayapura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.4571° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.9637° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km NNW of Jayapura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-18 23:27:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-19 00:12:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 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 14.217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us200082fu Id of event.
Event Code 200082fu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200082fu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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