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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 46 km S of Cikiruh Wetan, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.2506S, 105.8619WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Cikiruh Wetan in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 19:07:32 / January 23, 2018 @ 7:07 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000cefq. Unique identifier: us1000cefq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56.86 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:07:32 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 105.8619 East, latitude -7.2506 South, depth = 56.86 km.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pelabuhanratu (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km S of Cikiruh Wetan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.8619° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2506° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km S of Cikiruh Wetan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-23 19:07:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 23:03:41 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 271 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 1.79 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us1000cefq Id of event.
Event Code 1000cefq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cefq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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