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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Cempa in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2018S, 119.7603WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Cempa in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/19 / 2019-04-05 02:29:46 / April 5, 2019 @ 2:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 192.17 km (119 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.7603 East, latitude -8.2018 South, depth = 192.17 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000350x. Id of event: us7000350x. The temblor was detected at 10:29:46 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 34 km NNW of Cempa, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.7603° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2018° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 192.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km NNW of Cempa, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-05 02:29:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-13 00:10:00 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 284 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 3.166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us7000350x Id of event.
Event Code 7000350x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000350x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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