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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Sepang in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.3053S, 114.9099WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Sepang in Indonesia on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 03:52:12 / May 27, 2020 @ 3:52 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:52:12 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 114.9099 East, latitude -8.3053 South, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us60009zsk. Ids that are associated to the event: us60009zsk.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gambiran Satu, Genteng, Karangasem. The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Singaraja (c. 133 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Banyuwangi (c. 108 200 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Banjar (c. 89 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Genteng (c. 79 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Muncar (c. 64 500 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 0 km WNW of Sepang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 114.9099° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3053° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km WNW of Sepang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-27 03:52:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-27 04:12:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 0.767 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us60009zsk Id of event.
Event Code 60009zsk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009zsk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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