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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Bunobogu in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.0093S, 121.7589WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 km ESE of Bunobogu, Indonesia (10 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10005ynr. Unique identifier: us10005ynr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:46:19 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 55.44 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 121.7589 East, latitude 1.0093 North, depth = 55.44 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/16 / 2016-06-30 10:46:19 / June 30, 2016 @ 10:46 am.

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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 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: 16 km ESE of Bunobogu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7589° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE of Bunobogu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-30 10:46:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-30 11:03:53 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 369 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 0.982 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us10005ynr Id of event.
Event Code 10005ynr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ynr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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