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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Cempa in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.0522S, 119.6251WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Cempa in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/08/19 / 2019-08-26 17:00:53 / August 26, 2019 @ 5:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 169.71 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70005a9y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005a9y. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:00:53 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 119.6251° East, latitude -8.0522° South, depth = 169.71 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Labuhanbajo. Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 56 km NNW of Cempa, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.6251° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.0522° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 169.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 2019-08-26 17:00:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-01 20:05:26 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 3.02 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us70005a9y Id of event.
Event Code 70005a9y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005a9y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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