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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Tual in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.0287S, 131.6515WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 128 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia (80 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.27 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 131.6515 East, latitude -6.0287 South, depth = 74.27 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k8jl. Id of event: us2000k8jl. The temblor was picked up at 23:25:58 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/04/19 / 2019-04-01 14:25:58 / April 1, 2019 @ 2:25 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 128 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.6515° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0287° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 128km WSW of Tual, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-01 14:25:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-01 14:52:35 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 326 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 1.972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us2000k8jl Id of event.
Event Code 2000k8jl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k8jl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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