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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 58 km NNE of Sangiang, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.798S, 119.118WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Sangiang in Indonesia on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/04/16 / 2016-04-02 09:47:34 / April 2, 2016 @ 9:47 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 119.118° East, latitude -7.798° South, depth = 8.03 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.03 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:47:34 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005gdh. Id of event: us20005gdh.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bima. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km NNE of Sangiang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.118° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.798° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NNE of Sangiang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-02 09:47:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-29 11:30:54 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 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 2.836 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us20005gdh Id of event.
Event Code 20005gdh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005gdh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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