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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Bolengpulau in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1833S, 119.8876WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bolengpulau in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us700063h6. Event ids that are associated: us700063h6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.46 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 119.8876 East, latitude -8.1833 South, depth = 11.46 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 16:23:44 / October 27, 2019 @ 4:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:23:44 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ruteng, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 30 km NNW of Bolengpulau, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.8876° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1833° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NNW of Bolengpulau, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-27 16:23:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-05 20:21:01 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 284 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 2.368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us700063h6 Id of event.
Event Code 700063h6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700063h6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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