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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Pelabuhanratu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.7441S, 106.3321WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Pelabuhanratu in Indonesia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/10/20 / 2020-10-21 23:50:21 / October 21, 2020 @ 11:50 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c6bl. Id of event: us7000c6bl. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 106.3321 East, latitude -6.7441 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:50:21 / 11:50 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Jakarta (c. 8 540 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bekasi (c. 1 520 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tangerang (c. 1 372 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from South Tangerang (c. 1 303 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Bogor (c. 800 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bekasi, Jakarta, Cileungsir. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 36 km NW of Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.3321° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.7441° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km NW of Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-21 23:50:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-31 02:40:56 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 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 1.49 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 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 us7000c6bl Id of event.
Event Code 7000c6bl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c6bl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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