Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Ciharus in Indonesia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Ciharus in Indonesia on Monday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:19:42 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 107.8095 East, latitude -7.3766 South, depth = 130.5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/17 / 2017-07-24 00:19:42 / July 24, 2017 @ 12:19 am. Id of earthquake: us2000a23u. Event ids that are associated: us2000a23u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 130.5 km (81 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jatiwangi, Ciranjang-hilir, Kuningan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Bandung (c. 1 699 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Cimahi (c. 493 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Tasikmalaya (c. 271 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sumedang Utara (c. 206 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Lembang (c. 183 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Banjaran (c. 165 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 1 km WNW of Ciharus, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	107.8095° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.3766° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	130.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km WNW of Ciharus, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-24 00:19:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-05 23:34:32	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	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	0.582	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us2000a23u	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a23u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a23u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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