Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Batang in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 113 km NNW of Batang, Indonesia (70 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/18 / 2018-10-19 17:24:15 / October 19, 2018 @ 5:24 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 542.53 km (337 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 110.2853 East, latitude -5.5487 South, depth = 542.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hghs. Unique identifier: us1000hghs. The temblor was reported at 00:24:15 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 113 km NNW of Batang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	110.2853° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-5.5487° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	542.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	113km NNW of Batang, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-19 17:24:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-17 22:18:48	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	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	1.498	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us1000hghs	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hghs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hghs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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