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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 16 km N of Rantepang, Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.7722S, 119.9419WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Rantepang in Indonesia. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 119.9419° East, -2.7722° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 16:21:36 / September 28, 2018 @ 4:21 pm. The temblor was reported at 00:21:36 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000h73x. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h73x.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palopo, Rantepao. Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 16 km N of Rantepang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.9419° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.7722° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km N of Rantepang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-28 16:21:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-28 15:27:45 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 298 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 2.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us1000h73x Id of event.
Event Code 1000h73x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h73x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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