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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Cikomara in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.5628S, 106.4346WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cikomara in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us2000a92l. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a92l. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:04:25 / 7:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/08/17 / 2017-08-13 12:04:25 / August 13, 2017 @ 12:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 106.4346 East, latitude -6.5628 South, depth = 183.18 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 183.18 km (114 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cikarang, Bekasi, Labuan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Jakarta (c. 8 540 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bekasi (c. 1 520 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tangerang (c. 1 372 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from South Tangerang (c. 1 303 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Bogor (c. 800 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ENE of Cikomara, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.4346° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.5628° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 183.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Cikomara, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-13 12:04:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-25 06:28:47 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 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 3.969 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 2.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us2000a92l Id of event.
Event Code 2000a92l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a92l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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