Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Ponorogo in Indonesia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ponorogo in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 142.33 km (88 miles). Global time and date of event 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 22:52:39 / August 23, 2020 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:52:39 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 111.4201° East, latitude -7.7582° South, depth = 142.33 km. Event id: us7000beax. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000beax.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Surakarta (c. 555 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kediri (c. 235 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Madiun (c. 186 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Blitar (c. 132 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Klaten (c. 126 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Grogol (c. 100 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Diwek, Blitar, Klaten (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 13 km NNW of Ponorogo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	111.4201° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.7582° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	142.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NNW of Ponorogo, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-23 22:52:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-31 04:46:15	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	259	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	0.901	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us7000beax	Id of event.
Event Code	7000beax	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000beax,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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