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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sukutukang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.3559S, 123.3786WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 74 km ENE of Sukutukang, Indonesia (46 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/10/17 / 2017-10-09 16:53:36 / October 9, 2017 @ 4:53 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.32 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 33.32 km, 123.3786° East, -8.3559° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000b33e. Unique identifier: us2000b33e. The temblor was picked up at 00:53:36 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km ENE of Sukutukang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.3786° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3559° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km ENE of Sukutukang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-09 16:53:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-10 20:01:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 312 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 1.162 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us2000b33e Id of event.
Event Code 2000b33e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b33e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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