Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Jakarta in Indonesia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Jakarta in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/03/17 / 2017-03-26 15:06:53 / March 26, 2017 @ 3:06 pm. Event id: us10008dki. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008dki. Exact location, longitude 106.8915° East, latitude -6.0928° South, depth = 195 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 195 km (121 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:06:53 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). 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). Earthquake epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Jakarta (c. 8 540 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Bekasi (c. 1 520 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Tangerang (c. 1 372 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from South Tangerang (c. 1 303 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Bogor (c. 800 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pandeglang, Serang, Purwakarta (min 5000 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km NNE of Jakarta, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	106.8915° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.0928° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	195 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NNE of Jakarta, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-26 15:06:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-09 16:48:35	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	246	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	21.844	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us10008dki	Id of event.
Event Code	10008dki	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008dki,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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