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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Pemenang in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.4774S, 115.9527WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Pemenang in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005dmj. Unique identifier: us20005dmj. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:34:44 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.98 km (21 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 115.9527 East, latitude -8.4774 South, depth = 33.98 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/03/16 / 2016-03-31 09:34:44 / March 31, 2016 @ 9:34 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tabanan, Kuta, Denpasar (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kuta (c. 30 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km WSW of Pemenang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 115.9527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4774° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WSW of Pemenang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-31 09:34:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-31 22:45:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 302 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 1.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us20005dmj Id of event.
Event Code 20005dmj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dmj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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