Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Bitung in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 173 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia (107 miles). Unique identifier: us20005xt8. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005xt8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.31 km (38 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:23:06 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.3786° East, 2.4501° North, depth 61.31 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/05/16 / 2016-05-18 00:23:06 / May 18, 2016 @ 12:23 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 173 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.3786° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	2.4501° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	61.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	173km NE 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	2016-05-18 00:23:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-02 04:39:04	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	246	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	1.937	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	us20005xt8	Id of event.
Event Code	20005xt8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005xt8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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