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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 6 km N of Sampungu, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2064S, 118.5449WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Sampungu in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.14 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us100085zk. Unique identifier: us100085zk. Exact location of earthquake, 118.5449° East, -8.2064° South, depth 13.14 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/02/17 / 2017-02-20 19:27:43 / February 20, 2017 @ 7:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:27:43 / 3:27 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 6 km N of Sampungu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.5449° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2064° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km N of Sampungu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-20 19:27:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-09 21:22:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 3.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us100085zk Id of event.
Event Code 100085zk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100085zk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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