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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Laiwui in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.8309S, 127.6784WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 57 km N of Laiwui, Indonesia (35 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:38:33 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.03 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 10:38:33 / July 14, 2019 @ 10:38 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60004un0. Ids that are associated to the event: us60004un0. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.6784 East, latitude -0.8309 South, depth = 7.03 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 57 km N of Laiwui, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.6784° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.8309° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km N of Laiwui, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-14 10:38:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-11 05:27:08 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 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 1.622 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 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 us60004un0 Id of event.
Event Code 60004un0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004un0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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