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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Buaran in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.246S, 109.622WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Buaran in Indonesia on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.43 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000e20r. Unique identifier: us2000e20r. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/18 / 2018-04-18 06:28:33 / April 18, 2018 @ 6:28 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:28:33 / 1:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 109.622 East, latitude -7.246 South, depth = 2.43 km.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salatiga, Sleman, Sidareja (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Semarang (c. 1 288 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Pekalongan (c. 257 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tegal (c. 237 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Purwokerto (c. 217 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Pemalang (c. 184 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Salatiga (c. 172 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Adiwerna (c. 134 200 pop).

Each 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. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 23 km SSE of Buaran, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 109.622° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.246° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SSE of Buaran, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-18 06:28:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-23 01:09:14 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 0.835 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 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 us2000e20r Id of event.
Event Code 2000e20r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e20r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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