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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Dobo in Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.6659S, 133.5171WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Dobo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 18.79 km, 133.5171° East, -5.6659° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:22:42 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.79 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 22:22:42 / February 4, 2020 @ 10:22 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007pew. Id of event: us70007pew.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tual (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Tual (c. 39 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 78 km W of Dobo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 133.5171° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6659° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km W of Dobo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-04 22:22:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-20 02:49:30 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 3.007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us70007pew Id of event.
Event Code 70007pew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007pew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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