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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Sigirato in Indonesia

Posted by admin on May 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.568S, 119.2315WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Sigirato in Indonesia on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us70009agd. Event ids that are associated: us70009agd. Exact location of event, depth 127.3 km, 119.2315° East, -8.568° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.3 km (79 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 20:24:52 / April 29, 2020 @ 8:24 pm. The temblor was detected at 04:24:52 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Labuhanbajo, Bima. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 24 km ENE of Sigirato, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.2315° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.568° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km ENE of Sigirato, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-29 20:24:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-05 15:31:26 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 2.973 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us70009agd Id of event.
Event Code 70009agd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009agd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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