Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 72 km SSW of Kahale, Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 72 km SSW of Kahale, Indonesia (45 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.1 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:41:44 / 1:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 118.7875° East, -10.2721° South, depth 30.1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 17:41:44 / January 30, 2019 @ 5:41 pm. Event id: us2000jhei. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jhei.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km SSW of Kahale, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	118.7875° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-10.2721° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72km SSW of Kahale, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-30 17:41:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-26 14:58:06	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	3.772	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us2000jhei	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jhei	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jhei,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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