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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Abepura in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.8515S, 139.3612WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 138 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (86 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 00:14:40 / January 19, 2020 @ 12:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60007ac3. Event ids that are associated: us60007ac3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 139.3612 East, latitude -2.8515 South, depth = 35 km. The temblor was detected at 09:14:40 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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: 138 km W of Abepura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.3612° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8515° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km W of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-19 00:14:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-19 00:30:03 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 369 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 7.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us60007ac3 Id of event.
Event Code 60007ac3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ac3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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