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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 72 km SSW of Gunungsulah, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1839S, 107.3317WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 72 km SSW of Gunungsulah, Indonesia (45 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/03/16 / 2016-03-04 20:37:28 / March 4, 2016 @ 8:37 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64.81 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 107.3317 East, latitude -8.1839 South, depth = 64.81 km. Unique identifier: us10004w41. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004w41. The temblor was picked up at 03:37:28 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 72 km SSW of Gunungsulah, 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 107.3317° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1839° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km SSW of Gunungsulah, 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 20:37:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-02 21:54:16 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 1.38 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us10004w41 Id of event.
Event Code 10004w41 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004w41, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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