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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Kaliandak in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.0085S, 105.4655WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Kaliandak in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.49 km (36 miles). Id of earthquake: us10002y4i. Event ids that are associated: us10002y4i. The temblor was reported at 22:41:53 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 105.4655° East, latitude -6.0085° South, depth = 58.49 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 15:41:53 / August 5, 2015 @ 3:41 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Metro, Rangkasbitung, Pandeglang (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Bandarlampung (c. 800 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Serang (c. 164 800 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Metro (c. 149 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Rangkasbitung (c. 126 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Pandeglang (c. 92 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Labuan (c. 33 600 pop).

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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km SSW of Kaliandak, Indonesia. This data 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 105.4655° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0085° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SSW of Kaliandak, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-05 15:41:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-06 05:15:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.794 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us10002y4i Id of event.
Event Code 10002y4i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002y4i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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