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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 235 km ENE of Enarotali, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.0495S, 138.2827WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 235 km ENE of Enarotali, Indonesia (146 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009fvk. Unique identifier: us70009fvk. Exact location of event, longitude 138.2827 East, latitude -3.0495 South, depth = 73.52 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 05:44:32 / May 14, 2020 @ 5:44 am. The temblor was reported at 14:44:32 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 73.52 km (46 miles).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 235 km ENE of Enarotali, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.2827° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.0495° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 235km ENE of Enarotali, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-14 05:44:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-14 08:47:21 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 284 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 6.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us70009fvk Id of event.
Event Code 70009fvk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009fvk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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