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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 130 km E of Bitung, Indonesia

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Earthquake location 1.2844S, 126.2917WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 130 km E of Bitung, Indonesia (81 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.256 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.2917 East, latitude 1.2844 North, depth = 47.256 km. Event id: us7000nzjt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nzjt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:07:17 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/12/24 / 2024-12-04 14:07:17 / December 4, 2024 @ 2:07 pm.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 130 km E of Bitung, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2917° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.2844° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.256 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130 km E of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-04 14:07:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-02 03:37:42 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us7000nzjt Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzjt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzjt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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