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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 37 km S of Gombangan, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.6904S, 112.535WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Gombangan in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 112.535 East, latitude -8.6904 South, depth = 83.79 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:39:03 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 14:39:03 / May 16, 2019 @ 2:39 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.79 km (52 miles). Id of earthquake: usd000a1ka. Event ids that are associated: usd000a1ka.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Malang (c. 746 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Lawang (c. 159 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Blitar (c. 132 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Lumajang (c. 123 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kedungwaru (c. 80 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Batu (c. 75 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tulungagung (c. 65 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tulungagung, Lumajang, Kedungwaru (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 37 km S of Gombangan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 112.535° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6904° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km S of Gombangan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-16 14:39:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 15:00:30 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 340 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 1.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 usd000a1ka Id of event.
Event Code d000a1ka An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usd000a1ka, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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