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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.2549S, 130.2224WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 223 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (139 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/19 / 2019-12-17 06:53:31 / December 17, 2019 @ 6:53 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:53:31 / 3:53 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60006sk7. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006sk7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 157.76 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 130.2224° East, latitude -6.2549° South, depth = 157.76 km.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 223 km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This data 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 130.2224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2549° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 157.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 223km NNW 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 2019-12-17 06:53:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-17 07:59:52 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 2.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us60006sk7 Id of event.
Event Code 60006sk7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006sk7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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