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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Tugu Hilir in Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.879S, 105.4603WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Tugu Hilir in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us10007twu. Event ids that are associated: us10007twu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 68.97 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 68.97 km, 105.4603° East, -6.879° South. The temblor was picked up at 17:51:44 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/01/17 / 2017-01-18 10:51:44 / January 18, 2017 @ 10:51 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pandeglang, Labuan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Pandeglang (c. 92 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Labuan (c. 33 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 20 km WSW of Tugu Hilir, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.4603° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.879° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km WSW of Tugu Hilir, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-18 10:51:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-18 11:09:09 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 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 3.531 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us10007twu Id of event.
Event Code 10007twu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007twu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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