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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kupang in Indonesia


Earthquake location -10.2387S, 123.9271WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Kupang in Indonesia on Monday. The temblor was reported at 23:39:46 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 123.9271 East, latitude -10.2387 South, depth = 41.37 km. Global time and date of event 08/04/19 / 2019-04-08 15:39:46 / April 8, 2019 @ 3:39 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.37 km (26 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000378w. Unique identifier: us7000378w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Soe, Kupang. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Kupang (c. 282 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km ESE of Kupang, Indonesia. This data 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 123.9271° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.2387° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km ESE of Kupang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-08 15:39:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-16 19:50:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 0.261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us7000378w Id of event.
Event Code 7000378w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000378w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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