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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 71 km WNW of Kuripan, Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.8056S, 103.1618WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Kuripan in Indonesia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 57.53 km, 103.1618° East, -4.8056° South. Unique identifier: us2000a82z. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a82z. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.53 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/08/17 / 2017-08-09 09:10:32 / August 9, 2017 @ 9:10 am. The temblor was picked up at 16:10:32 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pageralam (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 71 km WNW of Kuripan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.1618° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.8056° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km WNW of Kuripan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-09 09:10:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-07 12:47:27 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 284 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 0.487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 us2000a82z Id of event.
Event Code 2000a82z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a82z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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