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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Kencong in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.0437S, 113.0346WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Kencong in Indonesia on Friday. Global time and date of event 10/05/24 / 2024-05-10 19:34:38 / May 10, 2024 @ 7:34 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000mxu2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mxu2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.785 km (38 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:34:38 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 113.0346 East, latitude -9.0437 South, depth = 61.785 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dampit, Kencong (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Kencong (c. 43 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Dampit (c. 23 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 91 km SSW of Kencong, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 113.0346° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.0437° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.785 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km SSW of Kencong, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-10 19:34:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-12 13:41:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 370 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.243 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us6000mxu2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mxu2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mxu2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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