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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Perabumulih in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.1881S, 103.8936WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Perabumulih in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 07:40:08 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/19 / 2019-07-26 00:40:08 / July 26, 2019 @ 12:40 am. Event id: us60004zkf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004zkf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 345.27 km (215 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 103.8936 East, latitude -3.1881 South, depth = 345.27 km.

Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Prabumulih (c. 103 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Lahat (c. 65 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tanjungagung (c. 53 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tanjungagung, Lahat, Prabumulih (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 49 km NW of Perabumulih, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.8936° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.1881° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 345.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NW of Perabumulih, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-26 00:40:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-03 03:34:31 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 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 1.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us60004zkf Id of event.
Event Code 60004zkf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004zkf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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