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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 70 km WNW of Babakantonggoh, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.4508S, 105.0388WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Babakantonggoh in Indonesia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.71 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/16 / 2016-09-11 15:35:11 / September 11, 2016 @ 3:35 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 105.0388 East, latitude -6.4508 South, depth = 55.71 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006nv5. Unique identifier: us10006nv5. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:35:11 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Labuan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Labuan (c. 33 600 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 70 km WNW of Babakantonggoh, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.0388° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4508° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km WNW of Babakantonggoh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-11 15:35:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-11 15:49:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 2.934 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us10006nv5 Id of event.
Event Code 10006nv5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006nv5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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