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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Java, Indonesia

Posted by admin on May 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.017S, 107.8785WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Java, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Java, Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/17 / 2017-05-05 23:17:32 / May 5, 2017 @ 11:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008rfl. Id of event: us10008rfl. Exact location, longitude 107.8785° East, latitude -8.017° South, depth = 62.85 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 62.85 km (39 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:17:32 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciamis, Tasikmalaya, Kawalu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Tasikmalaya (c. 271 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ciamis (c. 123 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kawalu (c. 50 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Singaparna (c. 48 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Java, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 107.8785° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.017° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Java, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-05 23:17:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-14 22:41:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us10008rfl Id of event.
Event Code 10008rfl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008rfl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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