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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Karangsubagan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3648S, 115.9073WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Karangsubagan in Indonesia on Thursday. Global time and date of event 23/11/16 / 2016-11-23 16:21:34 / November 23, 2016 @ 4:21 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10007bsv. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007bsv. Exact location of event, longitude 115.9073 East, latitude -8.3648 South, depth = 41.52 km. The temblor was detected at 00:21:34 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.52 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kuta (c. 30 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Munduk, Kuta, Tabanan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km WNW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 115.9073° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3648° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-23 16:21:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-27 23:47:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 260 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 1.739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10007bsv Id of event.
Event Code 10007bsv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007bsv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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