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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 77 km ENE of Ruteng, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.2691S, 121.0823WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Ruteng in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/20 / 2020-07-28 15:35:13 / July 28, 2020 @ 3:35 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000b8s9. Event ids that are associated: us6000b8s9. Exact location of event, longitude 121.0823 East, latitude -8.2691 South, depth = 182.97 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 182.97 km (114 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 15:35:13 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ende, Ruteng (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Ende (c. 77 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 77 km ENE of Ruteng, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0823° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2691° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 182.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km ENE of Ruteng, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-28 15:35:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-03 19:22:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us6000b8s9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b8s9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b8s9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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