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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Ambon in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.813S, 127.8489WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Ambon in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 06:54:13 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 127.8489 East, latitude -3.813 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/25 / 2025-09-20 06:54:13 / September 20, 2025 @ 6:54 am. Unique identifier: us7000qxir. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qxir.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ambon (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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. 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: 39 km WSW of Ambon, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.8489° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.813° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km WSW of Ambon, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-20 06:54:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-20 07:10:07 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us7000qxir Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxir An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxir, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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