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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Tual in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 31, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.2878S, 133.2159WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Tual in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 17:02:15 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 133.2159° East, latitude -6.2878° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/25 / 2025-10-31 17:02:15 / October 31, 2025 @ 5:02 pm. Unique identifier: us6000rkle. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rkle. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tual. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Tual (c. 39 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 89 km SE of Tual, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 133.2159° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2878° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89 km SE of Tual, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-31 17:02:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-31 17:21:35 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 340 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 125 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.482 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rkle Id of event.
Event Code 6000rkle An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkle, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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