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


Earthquake location -7.9868S, 107.8203WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Cibalieur in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 10:30:46 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006a45. Id of event: us10006a45. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.26 km (30 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 107.8203 East, latitude -7.9868 South, depth = 48.26 km. Global time and date of event 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 03:30:46 / July 31, 2016 @ 3:30 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Tasikmalaya (c. 271 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ciamis (c. 123 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kawalu (c. 50 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Singaparna (c. 48 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Rajapolah (c. 39 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Wanaraja (c. 26 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rajapolah, Ciamis, Wanaraja. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 32 km SSW of Cibalieur, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 107.8203° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.9868° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SSW of Cibalieur, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-31 03:30:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-04 21:54:43 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 298 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 2.678 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us10006a45 Id of event.
Event Code 10006a45 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006a45, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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