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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Nggongi in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -10.4935S, 120.2867WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Nggongi in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.2867 East, latitude -10.4935 South, depth = 28.44 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/18 / 2018-10-02 04:11:47 / October 2, 2018 @ 4:11 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.44 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000h5gv. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h5gv. The temblor was reported at 12:11:47 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waingapu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 33 km S of Nggongi, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.2867° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.4935° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km S of Nggongi, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-02 04:11:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-02 04:41:22 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 271 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 2.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us1000h5gv Id of event.
Event Code 1000h5gv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h5gv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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