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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Luwuk in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.2546S, 122.8613WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Luwuk in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 101.41 km (63 miles). Event id: us10008szv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008szv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:43:06 / 6:43 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/05/17 / 2017-05-17 10:43:06 / May 17, 2017 @ 10:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 122.8613° East, -0.2546° South, depth 101.41 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo, Luwuk (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Luwuk (c. 47 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 77 km N of Luwuk, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.8613° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.2546° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km N of Luwuk, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-17 10:43:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-17 11:04:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 271 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 0.787 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us10008szv Id of event.
Event Code 10008szv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008szv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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