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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Laiponda in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.8042S, 119.8909WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Laiponda in Indonesia on Wednesday. Event id: us1000apnu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000apnu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 69.81 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 119.8909 East, latitude -9.8042 South, depth = 69.81 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/10/17 / 2017-10-03 17:17:49 / October 3, 2017 @ 5:17 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:17:49 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waingapu. 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 6 km N of Laiponda, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.8909° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.8042° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km N of Laiponda, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-03 17:17:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-31 22:04:45 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 259 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 2.591 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 78 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 us1000apnu Id of event.
Event Code 1000apnu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000apnu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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