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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Tawun in Indonesia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Tawun in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 09:06:30 / October 27, 2018 @ 9:06 am. Exact location of event, longitude 115.8774 East, latitude -8.9894 South, depth = 85.26 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hhxp. Unique identifier: us1000hhxp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:06:30 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.26 km (53 miles).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kuta (c. 30 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ubud (c. 28 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ubud, Kuta, Denpasar. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 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 ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km SSW of Tawun, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	115.8774° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.9894° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	85.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km SSW of Tawun, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-27 09:06:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-27 09:44:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	1.781	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us1000hhxp	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hhxp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hhxp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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