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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Pasirnangka in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.9655S, 104.7981WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 93 km WSW of Pasirnangka, Indonesia (58 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 104.7981 East, latitude -6.9655 South, depth = 35 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:56:53 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/04/18 / 2018-04-14 08:56:53 / April 14, 2018 @ 8:56 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000e057. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000e057. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two 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 quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 93 km WSW of Pasirnangka, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.7981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9655° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km WSW of Pasirnangka, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-14 08:56:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-14 09:14:04 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 354 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 3.593 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us2000e057 Id of event.
Event Code 2000e057 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e057, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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