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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Amahai in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.1454S, 129.5965WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 117 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia (73 miles) on Thursday. Exact location, longitude 129.5965° East, latitude -4.1454° South, depth = 40.65 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004gha. Unique identifier: us20004gha. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 16:42:51 / December 9, 2015 @ 4:42 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:42:51 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.65 km (25 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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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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. 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: 117 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.5965° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.1454° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km SE of Amahai, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-09 16:42:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 00:35:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 2.914 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us20004gha Id of event.
Event Code 20004gha An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004gha, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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