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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Cempa in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.343S, 119.7134WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Cempa in Indonesia on Saturday. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:30:51 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 184.84 km (115 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/17 / 2017-04-29 15:30:51 / April 29, 2017 @ 3:30 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008pnl. Id of event: us10008pnl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.7134 East, latitude -8.343 South, depth = 184.84 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 24 km NW of Cempa, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.7134° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.343° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 184.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NW of Cempa, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-29 15:30:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-22 17:15:01 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 2.513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us10008pnl Id of event.
Event Code 10008pnl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008pnl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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