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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Tegalbuleud in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.4774S, 106.7727WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tegalbuleud in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 16/03/20 / 2020-03-16 03:56:41 / March 16, 2020 @ 3:56 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.78 km (45 miles). Exact location, longitude 106.7727° East, latitude -7.4774° South, depth = 72.78 km. The temblor was detected at 10:56:41 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70008gx1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008gx1.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soreang, Ciranjang-hilir, Caringin (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Soreang (c. 150 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Caringin (c. 91 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cicurug (c. 89 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ciranjang-hilir (c. 77 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Banjar (c. 37 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSE of Tegalbuleud, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.7727° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.4774° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSE of Tegalbuleud, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-16 03:56:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-01 04:32:42 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 0.87 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us70008gx1 Id of event.
Event Code 70008gx1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008gx1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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