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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Banjar Wangsian in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.4187S, 115.3556WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Banjar Wangsian in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 115.3556° East, latitude -8.4187° South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 20/09/24 / 2024-09-20 23:26:16 / September 20, 2024 @ 11:26 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:26:16 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ntee. Unique identifier: us6000ntee. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Denpasar (c. 405 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Singaraja (c. 133 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Banjar (c. 89 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Tabanan (c. 33 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Negara (c. 33 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Karangasem (c. 31 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mataram, Negara, Seririt (min 5000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 11 km NW of Banjar Wangsian, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 115.3556° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4187° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km NW of Banjar Wangsian, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-20 23:26:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-20 23:48:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 20 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 334 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 1.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us6000ntee Id of event.
Event Code 6000ntee An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntee, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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