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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 41 km SSE of Sindangsari, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.138S, 108.616WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Sindangsari in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 18:05:56 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j7rq. Id of event: us2000j7rq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/19 / 2019-01-23 11:05:56 / January 23, 2019 @ 11:05 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 104.51 km (65 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 108.616 East, latitude -8.138 South, depth = 104.51 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kroya, Wangon, Sidareja (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Wangon (c. 35 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sidareja (c. 30 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kroya (c. 23 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 41 km SSE of Sindangsari, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 108.616° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.138° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSE of Sindangsari, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-23 11:05:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-23 11:30:01 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 284 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 1.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us2000j7rq Id of event.
Event Code 2000j7rq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j7rq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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