Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Saumlaki in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.2925S, 128.8509WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 281 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (175 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 157.21 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.8509 East, latitude -7.2925 South, depth = 157.21 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 02:32:37 / April 11, 2020 @ 2:32 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008yj8. Unique identifier: us70008yj8. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:32:37 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter).

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

Questions or comments?

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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 281 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.8509° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2925° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 157.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 281km WNW 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 2020-04-11 02:32:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-17 22:00:23 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 259 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 2.521 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us70008yj8 Id of event.
Event Code 70008yj8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008yj8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply