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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 216 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.9585S, 126.415WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 216 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia (134 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hage. Unique identifier: us2000hage. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:39:36 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/09/18 / 2018-09-01 15:39:36 / September 1, 2018 @ 3:39 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 126.415 East, latitude 2.9585 North, depth = 10 km.

Every 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 four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 216 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.415° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.9585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 216km NE of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-01 15:39:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-29 20:20:57 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 259 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 2.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us2000hage Id of event.
Event Code 2000hage An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hage, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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