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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Sindangsari in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1564S, 108.5086WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Sindangsari in Indonesia on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us60004wc9. Unique identifier: us60004wc9. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/19 / 2019-07-27 03:44:48 / July 27, 2019 @ 3:44 am. Exact location of event, longitude 108.5086 East, latitude -8.1564 South, depth = 85.12 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.12 km (53 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:44:48 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciamis, Wangon, Kawalu. Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Ciamis (c. 123 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kawalu (c. 50 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Wangon (c. 35 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sidareja (c. 30 300 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 38 km S of Sindangsari, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 108.5086° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1564° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km S of Sindangsari, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-27 03:44:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-27 04:05:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 312 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 2.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us60004wc9 Id of event.
Event Code 60004wc9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004wc9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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