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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Naisano Dua in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.2273S, 123.5983WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Naisano Dua in Indonesia. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:24:53 / 4:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 123.5983° East, -9.2273° South, depth 117.63 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/16 / 2016-12-30 08:24:53 / December 30, 2016 @ 8:24 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 117.63 km (73 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007nqa. Unique identifier: us10007nqa. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pante Makasar. Close country/countries, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km NNW of Naisano Dua, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.5983° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.2273° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NNW of Naisano Dua, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-30 08:24:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-30 08:43:23 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 326 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 0.843 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us10007nqa Id of event.
Event Code 10007nqa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007nqa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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