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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 56 km ENE of Taniwel, Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.6129S, 128.9246WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Taniwel in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10007t93. Event ids that are associated: us10007t93. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.64 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/17 / 2017-01-14 06:41:03 / January 14, 2017 @ 6:41 am. Exact location of earthquake, 128.9246° East, -2.6129° South, depth 35.64 km. The temblor was detected at 15:41:03 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amahai (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 nineteen 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 56 km ENE of Taniwel, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.9246° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.6129° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km ENE of Taniwel, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-14 06:41:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-14 06:56:22 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 354 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 3.334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us10007t93 Id of event.
Event Code 10007t93 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007t93, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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