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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Kali in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.6024S, 122.4544WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 195 km NE of Kali, Indonesia (121 miles). Global time and date of event 07/05/19 / 2019-05-07 07:19:12 / May 7, 2019 @ 7:19 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 529.99 km (329 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:19:12 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 529.99 km, 122.4544° East, 2.6024° North. Id of earthquake: us70003huw. Event ids that are associated: us70003huw.

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

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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. 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: 195 km NE of Kali, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.4544° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.6024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 529.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 195km NE of Kali, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-07 07:19:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-07 07:34:25 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 354 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 2.233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us70003huw Id of event.
Event Code 70003huw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003huw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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