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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 13 km NNW of Kresek, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.0257S, 106.3181WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Kresek in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/11/24 / 2024-11-14 01:36:35 / November 14, 2024 @ 1:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nuxp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nuxp. The epicenter was at a depth of 196.104 km (122 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:36:35 / 1:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 196.104 km, 106.3181° East, -6.0257° South.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bogor, Cileungsir, Citeureup (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Jakarta (c. 8 540 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Bekasi (c. 1 520 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tangerang (c. 1 372 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from South Tangerang (c. 1 303 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bogor (c. 800 000 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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km NNW of Kresek, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.3181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0257° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 196.104 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km NNW of Kresek, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-14 01:36:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 06:30:48 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.946 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us7000nuxp Id of event.
Event Code 7000nuxp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nuxp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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