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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Labuhanbajo in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1594S, 119.7837WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Labuhanbajo in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/18 / 2018-06-29 13:55:48 / June 29, 2018 @ 1:55 pm. Unique identifier: us2000fxjm. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fxjm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 183.4 km (114 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:55:48 / 9:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.7837 East, latitude -8.1594 South, depth = 183.4 km.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 38 km NNW of Labuhanbajo, 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 119.7837° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1594° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 183.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NNW of Labuhanbajo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-29 13:55:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-08 10:03:04 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 2.473 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us2000fxjm Id of event.
Event Code 2000fxjm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fxjm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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