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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Cikarang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.4505S, 107.2464WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Cikarang in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 107.2464 East, latitude -6.4505 South, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/25 / 2025-08-20 12:54:57 / August 20, 2025 @ 12:54 pm UTC/GMT. 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r2b3. Unique identifier: us6000r2b3. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:54:57 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Jakarta (c. 8 540 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bandung (c. 1 699 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bekasi (c. 1 520 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Tangerang (c. 1 372 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from South Tangerang (c. 1 303 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Masjid Jamie Baitul Muttaqien (c. 1 000 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kresek, Pelabuhanratu, Paseh (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 23 km SSE of Cikarang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 107.2464° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4505° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km SSE of Cikarang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-20 12:54:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-20 13:20:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 372 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.657 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us6000r2b3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2b3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2b3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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