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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Amahai in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.9919S, 130.4109WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 247 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia (153 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.4109 East, latitude -4.9919 South, depth = 96.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/17 / 2017-09-25 23:57:45 / September 25, 2017 @ 11:57 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:57:45 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 96.04 km (60 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000b0hk. Event ids that are associated: us2000b0hk.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 247 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.4109° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.9919° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247km 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 2017-09-25 23:57:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-07 22:09:19 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 2.757 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 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 us2000b0hk Id of event.
Event Code 2000b0hk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b0hk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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