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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 20 km S of Buniasih, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.6087S, 106.7131WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Buniasih in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/16 / 2016-02-16 13:47:14 / February 16, 2016 @ 1:47 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.27 km (39 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 62.27 km, 106.7131° East, -7.6087° South. The temblor was detected at 20:47:14 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004r1g. Id of event: us10004r1g.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Banjar, Sukabumi, Pelabuhanratu. Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Banjar (c. 37 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km S of Buniasih, Indonesia. This information 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 106.7131° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.6087° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S of Buniasih, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-16 13:47:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-13 17:26:56 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 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 1.186 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us10004r1g Id of event.
Event Code 10004r1g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004r1g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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