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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Sidorukun in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.0071S, 114.0318WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Sidorukun in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 114.0318 East, latitude -9.0071 South, depth = 43.68 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10002xv1. Unique identifier: us10002xv1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.68 km (27 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/15 / 2015-07-14 02:24:22 / July 14, 2015 @ 2:24 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:24:22 / 10:24 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Singojuruh, Genteng, Srono (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Genteng (c. 79 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Muncar (c. 64 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Srono (c. 36 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Singojuruh (c. 29 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Gambiran Satu (c. 22 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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 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: 47 km SSW of Sidorukun, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 114.0318° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.0071° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km SSW of Sidorukun, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-14 02:24:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-12 00:26:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 259 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 0.546 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us10002xv1 Id of event.
Event Code 10002xv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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