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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Nabire in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.0565S, 136.2664WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Nabire in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 136.2664 East, latitude -3.0565 South, depth = 49.27 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.27 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 16:44:37 / April 21, 2020 @ 4:44 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000913r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000913r. The temblor was detected at 01:44:37 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Nabire (c. 43 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nabire.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 93 km ENE of Nabire, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.2664° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.0565° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km ENE of Nabire, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-21 16:44:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-21 17:03:39 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 326 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 4.014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us7000913r Id of event.
Event Code 7000913r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000913r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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