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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Gunungbatu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.3666S, 106.0543WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Gunungbatu in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us1000eq25. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000eq25. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/06/18 / 2018-06-08 00:27:39 / June 8, 2018 @ 12:27 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 86.42 km (54 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 106.0543° East, -7.3666° South, depth 86.42 km. The temblor was detected at 07:27:39 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pelabuhanratu. Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 twenty-six 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 42 km W of Gunungbatu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.0543° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.3666° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km W of Gunungbatu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-08 00:27:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-15 05:27:45 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 246 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 3.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us1000eq25 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eq25 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eq25, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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