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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 28 km ESE of Liwa, Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.1708S, 104.2934WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Liwa in Indonesia on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 55.83 km (35 miles). Event id: us20006699. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006699. The temblor was detected at 13:44:42 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/06/16 / 2016-06-18 06:44:42 / June 18, 2016 @ 6:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 104.2934° East, latitude -5.1708° South, depth = 55.83 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Kotabumi (c. 42 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kotabumi.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 28 km ESE of Liwa, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.2934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.1708° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km ESE of Liwa, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-18 06:44:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-14 05:35:17 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 284 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 1.557 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 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 us20006699 Id of event.
Event Code 20006699 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006699, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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