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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Cibungur in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.7241S, 106.4171WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Cibungur in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d37h. Unique identifier: us2000d37h. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 13:28:11 / February 16, 2018 @ 1:28 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 106.4171 East, latitude -7.7241 South, depth = 63.13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 63.13 km (39 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:28:11 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pelabuhanratu (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km SSW of Cibungur, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.4171° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.7241° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSW of Cibungur, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-16 13:28:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 13:41:30 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 326 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 2.841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us2000d37h Id of event.
Event Code 2000d37h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d37h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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