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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 22 km NNW of Kampungbajo, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1681S, 120.0525WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Kampungbajo in Indonesia on Wednesday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:35:38 / 4:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 198.47 km (123 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 120.0525° East, -8.1681° South, depth 198.47 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us700091kr. Unique identifier: us700091kr. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/20 / 2020-04-22 08:35:38 / April 22, 2020 @ 8:35 am.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo. Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km NNW of Kampungbajo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.0525° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1681° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 198.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NNW of Kampungbajo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-22 08:35:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-29 07:44:36 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 2.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us700091kr Id of event.
Event Code 700091kr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700091kr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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