Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 173 km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 173 km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia (107 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 07:42:26 / 7:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.64 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 62.64 km, 125.9044° East, 0.0497° North. Unique identifier: us10005clw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005clw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/16 / 2016-04-29 23:42:26 / April 29, 2016 @ 11:42 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 173 km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.9044° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.0497° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62.64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	173km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-29 23:42:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-30 00:39:26	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	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	1.628	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us10005clw	Id of event.
Event Code	10005clw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005clw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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