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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Komodo in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.5552S, 119.4336WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Komodo in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us100031em. Unique identifier: us100031em. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/07/15 / 2015-07-23 21:43:08 / July 23, 2015 @ 9:43 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 157.02 km (98 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:43:08 / 5:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.4336 East, latitude -8.5552 South, depth = 157.02 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km WNW of Komodo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.4336° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.5552° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 157.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WNW of Komodo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-23 21:43:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-15 03:07:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 259 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.774 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us100031em Id of event.
Event Code 100031em An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031em, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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