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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Kedunggajul in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.7722S, 111.9764WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Kedunggajul in Indonesia. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:02:31 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 111.9764 East, latitude -8.7722 South, depth = 77.82 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us600050va. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600050va. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/07/19 / 2019-07-28 00:02:31 / July 28, 2019 @ 12:02 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 77.82 km (48 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Blitar (c. 132 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kedungwaru (c. 80 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tulungagung (c. 65 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sumberpucung (c. 35 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Boyolangu (c. 32 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Trenggalek (c. 29 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sumberpucung, Trenggalek, Tulungagung.

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 54 km SSW of Kedunggajul, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 111.9764° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.7722° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SSW of Kedunggajul, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-28 00:02:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-21 23:23:39 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 298 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 1.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us600050va Id of event.
Event Code 600050va An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600050va, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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