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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 6 km NNW of Purwa, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1325S, 114.9065WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Purwa in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 114.9065 East, latitude -8.1325 South, depth = 4.89 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us60006bjf. Unique identifier: us60006bjf. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 15:10:19 / November 14, 2019 @ 3:10 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.89 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:10:19 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Singaraja (c. 133 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Banyuwangi (c. 108 200 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Banjar (c. 89 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Genteng (c. 79 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Muncar (c. 64 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Srono (c. 36 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gambiran Satu, Genteng, Karangasem (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NNW of Purwa, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 114.9065° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1325° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW of Purwa, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-14 15:10:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-14 16:16:42 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 326 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 0.818 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us60006bjf Id of event.
Event Code 60006bjf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006bjf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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