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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Petarukan in Indonesia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Petarukan in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 248.38 km (154 miles). Exact location, longitude 109.4303° East, latitude -6.8503° South, depth = 248.38 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:54:50 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 23:54:50 / March 18, 2020 @ 11:54 pm. Unique identifier: us70008bx9. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008bx9.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kroya, Majenang, Astanajapura (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Pekalongan (c. 257 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Tegal (c. 237 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Purwokerto (c. 217 200 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Pemalang (c. 184 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Astanajapura (c. 148 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Adiwerna (c. 134 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Kedungwuni (c. 117 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km N of Petarukan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	109.4303° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.8503° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	248.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km N of Petarukan, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-18 23:54:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-19 00:11:14	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	312	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	1.022	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 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	us70008bx9	Id of event.
Event Code	70008bx9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008bx9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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