Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Kuripan in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 105 km W of Kuripan, Indonesia (65 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 102.8155° East, -4.9455° South, depth 55.1 km. Id of earthquake: us10002n91. Event ids that are associated: us10002n91. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:31:22 / 11:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.1 km (34 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/06/15 / 2015-06-19 04:31:22 / June 19, 2015 @ 4:31 am.

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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 105 km W of Kuripan, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	102.8155° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-4.9455° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	105km W of Kuripan, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-06-19 04:31:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-12 01:59:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	298	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	0.597	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	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	us10002n91	Id of event.
Event Code	10002n91	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002n91,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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