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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Ogotua in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.3325S, 119.6272WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 82 km WNW of Ogotua, Indonesia (51 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.5 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 13.5 km, 119.6272° East, 1.3325° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:56:22 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/04/19 / 2019-04-13 11:56:22 / April 13, 2019 @ 11:56 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us700038nr. Unique identifier: us700038nr.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 82 km WNW of Ogotua, 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 119.6272° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.3325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WNW of Ogotua, 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 11:56:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-09 12:22:28 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 1.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us700038nr Id of event.
Event Code 700038nr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700038nr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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