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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 91 km S of Luwuk, Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.7695S, 122.687WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Luwuk in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700038pe. Id of event: us700038pe. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.687 East, latitude -1.7695 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 13/04/19 / 2019-04-13 05:26:45 / April 13, 2019 @ 5:26 am UTC/GMT. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:26:45 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Luwuk (c. 47 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luwuk.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days twenty-four 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km S of Luwuk, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.687° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.7695° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km S of Luwuk, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-13 05:26:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-08 08:31:48 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 369 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 4.355 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us700038pe Id of event.
Event Code 700038pe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700038pe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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