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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 44 km SE of Lubuklinggau, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.6193S, 103.1055WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Lubuklinggau in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200063ke. Id of event: us200063ke. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/06/16 / 2016-06-06 13:06:23 / June 6, 2016 @ 1:06 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 147.51 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 103.1055 East, latitude -3.6193 South, depth = 147.51 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:06:23 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Lubuklinggau (c. 148 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Lahat (c. 65 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tanjungagung (c. 53 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Curup (c. 46 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tanjungagung, Curup, Lahat (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km SE of Lubuklinggau, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.1055° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.6193° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SE of Lubuklinggau, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-06 13:06:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-28 19:54:45 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 271 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 0.751 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us200063ke Id of event.
Event Code 200063ke An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063ke, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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