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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Sukabumi in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.9532S, 106.9105WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Sukabumi in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 02:10:52 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.61 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70006b4u. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006b4u. Exact location, longitude 106.9105° East, latitude -6.9532° South, depth = 81.61 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 19:10:52 / November 14, 2019 @ 7:10 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cileunyi, Tangerang, Cikupa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Jakarta (c. 8 540 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bandung (c. 1 699 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bekasi (c. 1 520 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tangerang (c. 1 372 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from South Tangerang (c. 1 303 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km SSW of Sukabumi, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.9105° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9532° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW of Sukabumi, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-14 19:10:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-06 00:26:04 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 271 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 3.707 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us70006b4u Id of event.
Event Code 70006b4u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006b4u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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