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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.5926S, 128.5929WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia (0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bwh5. Id of event: us1000bwh5. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/12/17 / 2017-12-26 20:18:14 / December 26, 2017 @ 8:18 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 05:18:14 / 5:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 128.5929° East, -7.5926° South, depth 136.48 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 136.48 km (85 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.5929° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.5926° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 136.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-26 20:18:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-29 19:58:53 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 312 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 2.709 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 56 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 us1000bwh5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bwh5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bwh5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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