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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 6 km SW of Ruteng, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.6552S, 120.419WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Ruteng in Indonesia. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:12:21 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000nmk4. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nmk4. Exact location of event, longitude 120.419 East, latitude -8.6552 South, depth = 151.287 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 151.287 km (94 miles). Global time and date of event 23/10/24 / 2024-10-23 06:12:21 / October 23, 2024 @ 6:12 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Ruteng (c. 34 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Labuhanbajo, Ruteng.

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 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: 6 km SW of Ruteng, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.419° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6552° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151.287 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km SW of Ruteng, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-23 06:12:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-23 07:16:24 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 298 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us7000nmk4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmk4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmk4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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