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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Atambua in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.9569S, 125.0891WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Atambua in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008hew. Unique identifier: us20008hew. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:40:32 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.0891 East, latitude -8.9569 South, depth = 39.77 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/01/17 / 2017-01-20 17:40:32 / January 20, 2017 @ 5:40 pm UTC/GMT. 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 39.77 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kefamenanu, Pante Makasar, Dili.

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 27 km NE of Atambua, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0891° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9569° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km NE 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 2017-01-20 17:40:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-16 17:22:16 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 284 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 1.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us20008hew Id of event.
Event Code 20008hew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008hew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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