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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Sape in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.5569S, 118.9504WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Sape in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/25 / 2025-04-29 20:44:44 / April 29, 2025 @ 8:44 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pvyj. Id of event: us7000pvyj. The temblor was reported at 20:44:44 / 8:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 118.9504 East, latitude -8.5569 South, depth = 153.018 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 153.018 km (95 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 3 km WNW of Sape, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.9504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.5569° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 153.018 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km WNW of Sape, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-29 20:44:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-30 14:46:32 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 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us7000pvyj Id of event.
Event Code 7000pvyj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pvyj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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