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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Amahai in Indonesia

Posted by admin on July 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.9298S, 129.5761WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.5761 East, latitude -2.9298 South, depth = 37.74 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.74 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/06/18 / 2018-06-12 17:53:47 / June 12, 2018 @ 5:53 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000erlu. Id of event: us1000erlu. The temblor was picked up at 02:53:47 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 85 km ENE of Amahai, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.5761° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9298° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km ENE 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 2018-06-12 17:53:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-10 14:13:07 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 259 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 2.669 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us1000erlu Id of event.
Event Code 1000erlu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000erlu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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