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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, Sulawesi, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.0353S, 119.5683WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Sulawesi, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.5683 East, latitude -3.0353 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000hrqc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hrqc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/11/18 / 2018-11-07 12:40:43 / November 7, 2018 @ 12:40 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 12:40:43 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Majene, Mamuju, Palopo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Majene (c. 37 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Sulawesi, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.5683° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.0353° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Sulawesi, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-07 12:40:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-06 13:01:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.974 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us1000hrqc Id of event.
Event Code 1000hrqc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hrqc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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