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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Lemito in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.1129S, 121.7822WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 52 km SSE of Lemito, Indonesia (32 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 17:18:29 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000e24f. Event ids that are associated: us2000e24f. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 143.82 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 09:18:29 / April 11, 2018 @ 9:18 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.7822 East, latitude 0.1129 North, depth = 143.82 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km SSE of Lemito, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7822° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.1129° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km SSE of Lemito, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-11 09:18:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-03 11:08:10 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 1.408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us2000e24f Id of event.
Event Code 2000e24f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e24f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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