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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Nggongi Satu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -10.4476S, 120.1729WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Nggongi Satu in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:37:45 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000h9er. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h9er. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 120.1729° East, latitude -10.4476° South, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/10/18 / 2018-10-02 00:37:45 / October 2, 2018 @ 12:37 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waingapu (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 28 km SSW of Nggongi Satu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.1729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.4476° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SSW of Nggongi Satu, 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 00:37:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-21 02:48:25 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 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 2.718 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us1000h9er Id of event.
Event Code 1000h9er An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h9er, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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