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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Amahai in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.5516S, 129.3954WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000iuhd. Unique identifier: us2000iuhd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.82 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.3954 East, latitude -3.5516 South, depth = 41.82 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:48:10 / 3:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/12/18 / 2018-12-17 18:48:10 / December 17, 2018 @ 6:48 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 58 km ESE of Amahai, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.3954° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.5516° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km ESE 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 2018-12-17 18:48:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-17 20:37:18 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 354 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 2.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us2000iuhd Id of event.
Event Code 2000iuhd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iuhd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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