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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 11 km SE of Nabire, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.4484S, 135.5525WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Nabire in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 135.5525° East, latitude -3.4484° South, depth = 34.67 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.67 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70009nee. Unique identifier: us70009nee. The temblor was picked up at 23:57:32 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/20 / 2020-05-17 14:57:32 / May 17, 2020 @ 2:57 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 11 km (7 miles) from Nabire (c. 43 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nabire (min 5000 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 11 km SE of Nabire, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.5525° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.4484° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SE 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 2020-05-17 14:57:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-24 17:03:32 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 298 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 3.34 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us70009nee Id of event.
Event Code 70009nee An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009nee, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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