Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Karangsubagan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3996S, 116.0692WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Karangsubagan in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.0692 East, latitude -8.3996 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:40:30 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60006bze. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006bze. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/19 / 2019-11-15 11:40:30 / November 15, 2019 @ 11:40 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ubud, Klungkung, Karangasem. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Klungkung (c. 27 800 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 two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel the quake?

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: 3 km WNW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.0692° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3996° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Karangsubagan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-15 11:40:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-15 12:16:50 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 298 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 1.897 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us60006bze Id of event.
Event Code 60006bze An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006bze, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply