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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Palu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.3268S, 120.0127WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 120.0127 East, latitude -0.3268 South, depth = 41.32 km. The temblor was detected at 13:14:31 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 05:14:31 / March 1, 2018 @ 5:14 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.32 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d9jx. Unique identifier: us2000d9jx.

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palu. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 64 km NNE of Palu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.0127° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.3268° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NNE of Palu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-01 05:14:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-01 08:26:08 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 298 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 1.622 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 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 us2000d9jx Id of event.
Event Code 2000d9jx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d9jx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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