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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Kuripan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.8055S, 103.0882WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Kuripan in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/19 / 2019-06-25 22:26:43 / June 25, 2019 @ 10:26 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.86 km (42 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us700044yd. Unique identifier: us700044yd. Exact location of event, depth 66.86 km, 103.0882° East, -4.8055° South. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:26:43 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pageralam.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 sixteen 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 79 km WNW of Kuripan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.0882° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.8055° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km WNW of Kuripan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-25 22:26:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-25 22:58:01 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 326 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 0.461 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us700044yd Id of event.
Event Code 700044yd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700044yd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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