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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kuripan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.5747S, 103.8107WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Kuripan in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 16:33:07 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 09:33:07 / July 28, 2018 @ 9:33 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000gg27. Unique identifier: us2000gg27. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 214.95 km (134 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 103.8107 East, latitude -4.5747 South, depth = 214.95 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lahat, Pageralam, Tanjungagung (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Baturaja (c. 134 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lahat (c. 65 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tanjungagung (c. 53 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km N of Kuripan, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.8107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.5747° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 214.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km N of Kuripan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-28 09:33:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-25 05:53:46 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 0.878 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us2000gg27 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gg27 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gg27, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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