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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Pelabuhanratu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.7527S, 106.4882WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Pelabuhanratu in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/05/24 / 2024-05-20 13:42:24 / May 20, 2024 @ 1:42 pm. Exact location, longitude 106.4882° East, latitude -7.7527° South, depth = 44.223 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:42:24 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000n1ah. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n1ah. The epicenter was at a depth of 44.223 km (27 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pelabuhanratu (min 5000 pop). Close 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 two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 84 km S of Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.4882° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.7527° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.223 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km S 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 2024-05-20 13:42:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-27 19:03:51 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 354 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.187 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us6000n1ah Id of event.
Event Code 6000n1ah An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n1ah, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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