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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 54 km SE of Lemito, Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.1755S, 121.8924WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 54 km SE of Lemito, Indonesia (34 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 189.09 km (117 miles). Unique identifier: us10004ufb. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004ufb. The temblor was reported at 19:53:28 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.8924 East, latitude 0.1755 North, depth = 189.09 km. Global time and date of event 29/02/16 / 2016-02-29 11:53:28 / February 29, 2016 @ 11:53 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 54 km SE of Lemito, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8924° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.1755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 189.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SE of Lemito, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-29 11:53:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 08:43:02 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 1.448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us10004ufb Id of event.
Event Code 10004ufb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004ufb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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