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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Karangbadar Kidul in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3132S, 109.0341WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Karangbadar Kidul in Indonesia on Wednesday. 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: us70005bj8. Id of event: us70005bj8. Exact location, longitude 109.0341° East, latitude -8.3132° South, depth = 95.78 km. The temblor was detected at 22:26:48 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 95.78 km (60 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/08/19 / 2019-08-28 15:26:48 / August 28, 2019 @ 3:26 pm.

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Wangon (c. 35 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kroya (c. 23 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wangon, Kroya (min 5000 pop).

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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 67 km S of Karangbadar Kidul, 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 109.0341° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3132° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km S of Karangbadar Kidul, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-28 15:26:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-10 03:17:35 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 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 1.527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us70005bj8 Id of event.
Event Code 70005bj8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005bj8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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