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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Batang in Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.7542S, 110.7112WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Batang in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us600062tq. Unique identifier: us600062tq. The temblor was picked up at 14:15:38 / 2:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 110.7112 East, latitude -5.7542 South, depth = 545.21 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/10/19 / 2019-10-25 07:15:38 / October 25, 2019 @ 7:15 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 545.21 km (339 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Batang (c. 115 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mlonggo (c. 33 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tayu (c. 26 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tayu, Mlonggo, Batang (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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 80 km N of Batang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 110.7112° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.7542° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 545.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km N of Batang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-25 07:15:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-25 07:29:32 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 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 1.314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us600062tq Id of event.
Event Code 600062tq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600062tq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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