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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 54 km SSW of Ngulung Wetan, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.711S, 111.2216WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Ngulung Wetan in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 111.2216° East, -8.711° South, depth 91.49 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007d6d. Unique identifier: us20007d6d. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 91.49 km (57 miles). Global time and date of event 11/10/16 / 2016-10-11 00:34:02 / October 11, 2016 @ 12:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 07:34:02 / 7:34 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Jatiroto (c. 50 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Trenggalek (c. 29 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jatiroto, Trenggalek. 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 54 km SSW of Ngulung Wetan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 111.2216° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.711° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SSW of Ngulung Wetan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-11 00:34:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-11 00:55:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 312 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 1.052 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us20007d6d Id of event.
Event Code 20007d6d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007d6d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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