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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Pototano in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3668S, 117.8199WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Pototano in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.484 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 117.8199 East, latitude -8.3668 South, depth = 20.484 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/25 / 2025-06-17 14:21:11 / June 17, 2025 @ 2:21 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:21:11 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qktm. Unique identifier: us6000qktm.

Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km E of Pototano, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 117.8199° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3668° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.484 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km E of Pototano, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-17 14:21:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-17 17:10:09 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 326 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.46 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us6000qktm Id of event.
Event Code 6000qktm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qktm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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