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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Mekarsari in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.6364S, 107.0596WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mekarsari in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/17 / 2017-01-26 17:50:15 / January 26, 2017 @ 5:50 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:50:15 / 12:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 88.74 km, 107.0596° East, -7.6364° South. Event id: us10007vkx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007vkx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 88.74 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciranjang-hilir, Margahayukencana, Pelabuhanratu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Banjaran (c. 165 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Soreang (c. 150 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Margahayukencana (c. 83 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ciranjang-hilir (c. 77 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Pameungpeuk (c. 48 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 21 km S of Mekarsari, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 107.0596° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.6364° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km S of Mekarsari, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-26 17:50:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-22 00:31:59 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 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 0.977 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us10007vkx Id of event.
Event Code 10007vkx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vkx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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