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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Malunda in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.005S, 118.9901WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Malunda in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/19 / 2019-03-12 15:18:39 / March 12, 2019 @ 3:18 pm UTC/GMT. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:18:39 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000jjsw. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jjsw. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 118.9901° East, -3.005° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Polewali, Majene, Mamuju. Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Majene (c. 37 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 14 km E of Malunda, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.9901° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.005° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km E of Malunda, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-12 15:18:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 16:39:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 2.135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us1000jjsw Id of event.
Event Code 1000jjsw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jjsw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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