Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Demak in Indonesia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Demak in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 13:06:20 / May 2, 2024 @ 1:06 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000mvq9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvq9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 13:06:20 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 254.546 km (158 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 254.546 km, 110.7264° East, -6.9477° South.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candi Prambanan, Wedi, Jogonalan. The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Semarang (c. 1 288 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Surakarta (c. 555 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Salatiga (c. 172 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Purwodadi (c. 150 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Ungaran (c. 127 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Klaten (c. 126 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 was reported nearby. 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.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km ESE of Demak, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	110.7264° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.9477° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	254.546 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km ESE of Demak, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-02 13:06:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-02 15:53:02	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	271	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us6000mvq9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mvq9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mvq9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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