Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Komodo in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Komodo in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 154.02 km (96 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000avn9. Id of event: us2000avn9. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:30:04 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 154.02 km, 119.4365° East, -8.2451° South. Global time and date of event 27/09/17 / 2017-09-27 23:30:04 / September 27, 2017 @ 11:30 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 38 km N of Komodo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.4365° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.2451° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	154.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km N of Komodo, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-27 23:30:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-27 23:49:21	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	2.798	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	68	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	us2000avn9	Id of event.
Event Code	2000avn9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000avn9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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