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


Earthquake location -5.9419S, 110.6387WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Batang in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004w3q. Id of event: us10004w3q. The temblor was detected at 01:01:13 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 551.53 km (343 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 110.6387 East, latitude -5.9419 South, depth = 551.53 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/03/16 / 2016-03-04 18:01:13 / March 4, 2016 @ 6:01 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Batang (c. 115 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Pecangaan (c. 61 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Gebog (c. 43 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Mlonggo (c. 33 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tayu (c. 26 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gebog, Pecangaan, Tayu.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 60 km N of Batang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 110.6387° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.9419° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 551.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km N of Batang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-04 18:01:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-30 20:55:22 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 1.961 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us10004w3q Id of event.
Event Code 10004w3q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004w3q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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