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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.1381S, 130.0671WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 243 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (151 miles) on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 144.28 km (90 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:28:39 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60006c3q. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006c3q. Global time and date of event 10/11/19 / 2019-11-10 15:28:39 / November 10, 2019 @ 3:28 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 130.0671 East, latitude -6.1381 South, depth = 144.28 km. 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 243 km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.0671° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.1381° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 144.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 243km 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 2019-11-10 15:28:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-17 17:59:23 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 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 2.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us60006c3q Id of event.
Event Code 60006c3q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006c3q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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