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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Bilungala in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.0683S, 123.0159WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Bilungala in Indonesia on Monday. The temblor was reported at 23:36:16 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.0159 East, latitude 0.0683 North, depth = 160.17 km. Event id: us70006x3i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006x3i. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 15:36:16 / December 23, 2019 @ 3:36 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 160.17 km (100 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 41 km SSW of Bilungala, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.0159° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.0683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 160.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSW of Bilungala, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-23 15:36:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 16:50:02 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 271 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 1.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us70006x3i Id of event.
Event Code 70006x3i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006x3i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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