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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Dompu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.8608S, 118.3395WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Dompu in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us7000nuvk. Event ids that are associated: us7000nuvk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 109.208 km (68 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:49:49 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/11/24 / 2024-11-29 05:49:49 / November 29, 2024 @ 5:49 am. Exact location of earthquake, 118.3395° East, -8.8608° South, depth 109.208 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bima (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 38 km SSW of Dompu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.3395° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.8608° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.208 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km SSW of Dompu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-29 05:49:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-29 06:08:02 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 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.557 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us7000nuvk Id of event.
Event Code 7000nuvk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nuvk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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