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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Cimapag in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.1371S, 106.8961WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cimapag in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100088xg. Id of event: us100088xg. Exact location of event, longitude 106.8961 East, latitude -7.1371 South, depth = 61.55 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:11:12 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/03/17 / 2017-03-06 20:11:12 / March 6, 2017 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.55 km (38 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Bandung (c. 1 699 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bogor (c. 800 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cimahi (c. 493 700 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Purwakarta (c. 215 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pamulang, Purwakarta, Lembang (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen 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: 2 km ESE of Cimapag, 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 106.8961° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1371° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ESE of Cimapag, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-06 20:11:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-21 21:29:12 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 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 3.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us100088xg Id of event.
Event Code 100088xg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100088xg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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