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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Bambanglipuro in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.4393S, 110.2022WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Bambanglipuro in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 12/01/25 / 2025-01-12 02:52:07 / January 12, 2025 @ 2:52 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000plth. Unique identifier: us6000plth. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 110.2022 East, latitude -8.4393 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:52:07 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Klaten, Kebonarun, Jogonalan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Yogyakarta (c. 636 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Klaten (c. 126 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Depok (c. 104 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kasihan (c. 86 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sewon (c. 73 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Melati (c. 67 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km S of Bambanglipuro, Indonesia. This data 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 110.2022° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4393° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km S of Bambanglipuro, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-12 02:52:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-28 22:53:04 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.401 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us6000plth Id of event.
Event Code 6000plth An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000plth, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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