Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Sewon in Indonesia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Sewon in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:24:59 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/01/17 / 2017-01-13 14:24:59 / January 13, 2017 @ 2:24 pm. Id of earthquake: us10007tsu. Event ids that are associated: us10007tsu. Exact location of event, longitude 110.3797 East, latitude -7.8693 South, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Yogyakarta (c. 636 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Surakarta (c. 555 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Salatiga (c. 172 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ungaran (c. 127 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Klaten (c. 126 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Magelang (c. 111 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sragen, Jatiroto, Ungaran.

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ENE of Sewon, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	110.3797° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.8693° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ENE of Sewon, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-13 14:24:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-17 22:37:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.9	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	259	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	0.148	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	231	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	us10007tsu	Id of event.
Event Code	10007tsu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007tsu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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