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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 21 km SW of Krajan, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3852S, 111.7684WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Krajan in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 111.7684 East, latitude -8.3852 South, depth = 43.3 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:28:33 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.3 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us200081ju. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200081ju. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 05:28:33 / December 10, 2016 @ 5:28 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Kediri (c. 235 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Madiun (c. 186 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Blitar (c. 132 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Kedungwaru (c. 80 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Ponorogo (c. 79 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nganjuk (c. 69 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kepanjen, Jatiroto, Madiun.

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 three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SW of Krajan, 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 111.7684° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3852° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SW of Krajan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-10 05:28:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-07 13:39:28 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 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 1.319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us200081ju Id of event.
Event Code 200081ju An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081ju, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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