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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kasiguncu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.4321S, 120.1454WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Kasiguncu in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/19 / 2019-03-25 14:50:52 / March 25, 2019 @ 2:50 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 120.1454° East, -1.4321° South, depth 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000k96j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k96j. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:50:52 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poso, Palu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 56 km W of Kasiguncu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.1454° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.4321° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km W of Kasiguncu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-25 14:50:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-03 14:26:54 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 2.605 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us2000k96j Id of event.
Event Code 2000k96j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k96j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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