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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Banjar Bias in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3437S, 115.4547WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Banjar Bias in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/17 / 2017-09-26 08:27:08 / September 26, 2017 @ 8:27 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 115.4547 East, latitude -8.3437 South, depth = 7.77 km. Id of earthquake: us2000b0x1. Event ids that are associated: us2000b0x1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:27:08 / 4:27 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.77 km (5 miles).

Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Singaraja (c. 133 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Banjar (c. 89 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Seririt, Banjar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 7 km ESE of Banjar Bias, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 115.4547° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3437° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ESE of Banjar Bias, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-26 08:27:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-06 12:56:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 246 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 1.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us2000b0x1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000b0x1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b0x1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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