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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Labuan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.6222S, 105.168WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Labuan in Indonesia on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72.17 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 105.168° East, latitude -6.6222° South, depth = 72.17 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/11/20 / 2020-11-14 15:32:32 / November 14, 2020 @ 3:32 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cezg. Unique identifier: us7000cezg. The temblor was picked up at 15:32:32 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Labuan. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Labuan (c. 33 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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.

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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: 78 km WSW of Labuan, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.168° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.6222° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78 km WSW of Labuan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-14 15:32:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-14 16:01:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 340 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 2.601 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us7000cezg Id of event.
Event Code 7000cezg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cezg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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