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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Biha in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.5711S, 103.5405WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 147 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia (91 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.02 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70009hcd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009hcd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:32:16 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 21:32:16 / May 15, 2020 @ 9:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 103.5405 East, latitude -6.5711 South, depth = 33.02 km.

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 seventeen 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 147 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.5405° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5711° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km SSW of Biha, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-15 21:32:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-16 21:11:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 2.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us70009hcd Id of event.
Event Code 70009hcd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009hcd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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