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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Waingapu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.417S, 120.2789WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Waingapu in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 19:21:17 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/25 / 2025-02-23 19:21:17 / February 23, 2025 @ 7:21 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 46.509 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 120.2789° East, latitude -9.417° South, depth = 46.509 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pfn2. Unique identifier: us7000pfn2.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ruteng, Waingapu (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km N of Waingapu, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.2789° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.417° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.509 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km N of Waingapu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-23 19:21:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-23 19:42:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 369 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.251 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us7000pfn2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pfn2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pfn2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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