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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Tanjungan in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.267S, 105.8262WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Tanjungan in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 00:35:18 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 105.8262 East, latitude -7.267 South, depth = 45.74 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/04/16 / 2016-04-29 17:35:18 / April 29, 2016 @ 5:35 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10005ch4. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005ch4. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.74 km (28 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Labuan, Pelabuhanratu. Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Labuan (c. 33 600 pop). 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. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 48 km S of Tanjungan, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.8262° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.267° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km S of Tanjungan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-29 17:35:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-29 21:07:48 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 340 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 3.197 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us10005ch4 Id of event.
Event Code 10005ch4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ch4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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