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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Kefamenanu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.9728S, 124.3735WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Kefamenanu in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700097p7. Id of event: us700097p7. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.3735 East, latitude -8.9728 South, depth = 128.13 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 13:50:21 / April 26, 2020 @ 1:50 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.13 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:50:21 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atambua, Kefamenanu, Pante Makasar (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 53 km NNW of Kefamenanu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.3735° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9728° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NNW of Kefamenanu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-26 13:50:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-30 19:22:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 0.784 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us700097p7 Id of event.
Event Code 700097p7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700097p7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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