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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Genteng in Indonesia

Posted by admin on June 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.283S, 107.4912WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Genteng in Indonesia on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 89.56 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 18:12:27 / 6:12 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20006216. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006216. Exact location of event, longitude 107.4912 East, latitude -7.283 South, depth = 89.56 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/06/16 / 2016-06-04 11:12:27 / June 4, 2016 @ 11:12 am.

Epicenter of the event was 44 km (28 miles) from Bandung (c. 1 699 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Cimahi (c. 493 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tasikmalaya (c. 271 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Purwakarta (c. 215 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sumedang Utara (c. 206 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purwakarta, Tasikmalaya, Kawalu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 1 km NNW of Genteng, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 107.4912° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.283° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NNW of Genteng, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-04 11:12:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-21 07:20:34 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 2.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us20006216 Id of event.
Event Code 20006216 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006216, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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