Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Tiang in Indonesia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tiang in Indonesia on Saturday. Unique identifier: us10006uqk. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006uqk. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:33:54 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 150.37 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/09/16 / 2016-09-23 23:33:54 / September 23, 2016 @ 11:33 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 111.8365° East, -8.0135° South, depth 150.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close 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 Singosari, Gongdanglegi Kulon, Mojokerto. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Malang (c. 746 700 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Kediri (c. 235 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Madiun (c. 186 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Blitar (c. 132 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Jombang (c. 126 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mojokerto (c. 112 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km WSW of Tiang, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	111.8365° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.0135° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	150.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km WSW of Tiang, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-23 23:33:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-22 03:59:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	1.304	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	106	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	us10006uqk	Id of event.
Event Code	10006uqk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006uqk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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