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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Bilungala in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.1154S, 123.4391WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Bilungala in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 137.77 km (86 miles). Id of earthquake: us70007ire. Event ids that are associated: us70007ire. Exact location, longitude 123.4391° East, latitude 0.1154° North, depth = 137.77 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 23:38:11 / February 4, 2020 @ 11:38 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:38:11 / 7:38 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km SE of Bilungala, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.4391° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.1154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SE of Bilungala, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-04 23:38:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-05 00:15:23 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 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 1.329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us70007ire Id of event.
Event Code 70007ire An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007ire, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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