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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Bandar Lampung in Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.594S, 105.1667WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Bandar Lampung in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.55 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/09/20 / 2020-09-05 22:44:01 / September 5, 2020 @ 10:44 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:44:01 / 10:44 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000bl1q. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bl1q. Exact location of earthquake, 105.1667° East, -5.594° South, depth 106.55 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kotabumi, Terbanggi Besar, Metro. Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Bandarlampung (c. 800 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Metro (c. 149 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Terbanggi Besar (c. 52 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Kotabumi (c. 42 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 21 km SSW of Bandar Lampung, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.1667° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.594° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km SSW of Bandar Lampung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-05 22:44:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-16 01:58:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us7000bl1q Id of event.
Event Code 7000bl1q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bl1q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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