Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Bitung in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 156 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia (97 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 126.1245° East, 2.4903° North, depth 66.31 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.31 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000a36p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a36p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/17 / 2017-07-26 09:09:09 / July 26, 2017 @ 9:09 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:09:09 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 156 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.1245° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	2.4903° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	156km NE of Bitung, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-26 09:09:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-23 11:58:08	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	298	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	2.11	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us2000a36p	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a36p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a36p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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