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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Tugu Hilir in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.1722S, 105.15WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km SW of Tugu Hilir, Indonesia (41 miles) on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude 105.15 East, latitude -7.1722 South, depth = 64.88 km. Global time and date of event 21/02/16 / 2016-02-21 23:05:47 / February 21, 2016 @ 11:05 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:05:47 / 6:05 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10004sdp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004sdp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.88 km (40 miles).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km SW of Tugu Hilir, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.15° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1722° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km SW of Tugu Hilir, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-21 23:05:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-06 06:49:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 271 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 3.324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us10004sdp Id of event.
Event Code 10004sdp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004sdp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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