Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Biha in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 254 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia (158 miles) on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:43:05 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/03/18 / 2018-03-26 19:43:05 / March 26, 2018 @ 7:43 pm. Unique identifier: us1000ddsm. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ddsm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 103.3692 East, latitude -7.5338 South, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	103.3692° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.5338° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	254km SSW of Biha, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-26 19:43:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-18 18:30:40	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	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	3.179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	170	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	us1000ddsm	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ddsm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ddsm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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