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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Kununurra in Australia


Earthquake location -15.5269S, 129.2734WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Kununurra in Australia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:56:54 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/02/19 / 2019-02-20 02:26:54 / February 20, 2019 @ 2:26 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000j9de. Unique identifier: us1000j9de. Exact location of event, longitude 129.2734 East, latitude -15.5269 South, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Australia (c. 21 516 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Kununurra (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kununurra.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km ENE of Kununurra, Australia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.2734° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.5269° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km ENE of Kununurra, Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-20 02:26:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-08 03:03:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 570 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 0.514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us1000j9de Id of event.
Event Code 1000j9de An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000j9de, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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