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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Sumberejo in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.1699S, 113.417WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Sumberejo in Indonesia on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 69.69 km, 113.417° East, -9.1699° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 69.69 km (43 miles). Unique identifier: us70005e98. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005e98. The temblor was detected at 01:12:33 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/19 / 2019-09-10 17:12:33 / September 10, 2019 @ 5:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kencong. The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Kencong (c. 43 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 five and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 87 km SSW of Sumberejo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 113.417° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.1699° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km SSW of Sumberejo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-10 17:12:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-10 17:50:51 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 1.005 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us70005e98 Id of event.
Event Code 70005e98 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005e98, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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