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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Solok in Indonesia

Posted by admin on November 4, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.7636S, 100.6204WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Solok in Indonesia on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 100.6204° East, latitude -0.7636° South, depth = 113.91 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:57:51 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/15 / 2015-10-20 23:57:51 / October 20, 2015 @ 11:57 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003rwk. Id of event: us10003rwk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 113.91 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Payakumbuh (c. 121 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bukittinggi (c. 98 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Pariaman (c. 92 200 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Solok (c. 48 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Sijunjung (c. 27 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Payakumbuh, Pariaman, Bukittinggi (min 5000 pop).

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. 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 was reported nearby.

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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: 5 km NW of Solok, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.6204° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.7636° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NW of Solok, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-20 23:57:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-04 02:01:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us10003rwk Id of event.
Event Code 10003rwk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003rwk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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