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


Earthquake location -2.8463S, 139.4383WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 129 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (80 miles). Event id: us70008h4x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008h4x. 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 108.36 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:27:19 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/20 / 2020-03-27 06:27:19 / March 27, 2020 @ 6:27 am. Exact location of event, depth 108.36 km, 139.4383° East, -2.8463° South.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 129 km W of Abepura, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.4383° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8463° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129km 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 2020-03-27 06:27:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-27 06:46:26 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 7.18 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us70008h4x Id of event.
Event Code 70008h4x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008h4x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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