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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 88 km SSE of Bengga, Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.6738S, 121.5495WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Bengga in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 10:03:45 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.5495 East, latitude -9.6738 South, depth = 82.58 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.58 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 02:03:45 / January 11, 2018 @ 2:03 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000ci1m. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ci1m.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ende (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Ende (c. 77 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 88 km SSE of Bengga, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5495° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.6738° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km SSE of Bengga, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-11 02:03:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-11 02:21:18 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 312 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 1.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us2000ci1m Id of event.
Event Code 2000ci1m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ci1m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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