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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Lubuklinggau in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.0609S, 102.7448WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Lubuklinggau in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 201.079 km (125 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:07:27 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 102.7448 East, latitude -3.0609 South, depth = 201.079 km. Unique identifier: us6000pkbn. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pkbn. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/01/25 / 2025-01-16 01:07:27 / January 16, 2025 @ 1:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bengkulu, Curup, Lubuklinggau. Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Lubuklinggau (c. 148 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Every 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km NNW of Lubuklinggau, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.7448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.0609° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 201.079 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km NNW of Lubuklinggau, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-16 01:07:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-16 01:20:30 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 354 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.308 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000pkbn Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkbn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkbn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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