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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 38 km SW of Bilungala, Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.0916S, 123.0166WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Bilungala in Indonesia on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 08:55:07 / 8:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.0166 East, latitude 0.0916 North, depth = 178.48 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 178.48 km (111 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 00:55:07 / December 8, 2016 @ 12:55 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007z1e. Id of event: us20007z1e.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km SW of Bilungala, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.0166° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.0916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 178.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SW 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 2016-12-08 00:55:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-08 01:17:50 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 284 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 1.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us20007z1e Id of event.
Event Code 20007z1e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007z1e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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