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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 165 km N of Saumlaki, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.4584S, 131.3997WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 165 km N of Saumlaki, Indonesia (103 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 13:06:22 / May 30, 2018 @ 1:06 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000eep7. Id of event: us1000eep7. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 89.75 km (56 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:06:22 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 131.3997° East, latitude -6.4584° South, depth = 89.75 km.

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

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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: 165 km N of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.3997° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4584° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165km N of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-30 13:06:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-27 05:38:41 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 1.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us1000eep7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eep7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eep7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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