Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Waisai in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 105 km WNW of Waisai, Indonesia (65 miles) on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/25 / 2025-12-25 20:26:16 / December 25, 2025 @ 8:26 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:26:16 / 8:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 129.6502 East, latitude 0.1619 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000rksj. Event ids that are associated: us7000rksj.

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 105 km WNW of Waisai, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.6502° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.1619° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	105 km WNW of Waisai, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-25 20:26:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-25 21:05:46	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	312	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.904	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us7000rksj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rksj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rksj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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