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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 230 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.368S, 129.9585WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 230 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (143 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 129.9585° East, -6.368° South, depth 132.26 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600040ps. Id of event: us600040ps. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 132.26 km (82 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:31:36 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/06/19 / 2019-06-08 12:31:36 / June 8, 2019 @ 12:31 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 230 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.9585° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.368° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 132.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 230km NW 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 2019-06-08 12:31:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 09:23:40 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 271 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 2.083 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us600040ps Id of event.
Event Code 600040ps An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600040ps, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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