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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near Padangsidempuan in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.7426S, 98.8752WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Padangsidempuan in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 16:34:57 / 4:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 75.07 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 09:34:57 / November 8, 2015 @ 9:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 98.8752 East, latitude 0.7426 North, depth = 75.07 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Padangsidempuan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10003vph. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003vph.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Padangsidempuan (c. 100 600 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sibolga, Padangsidempuan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 81 km SSW of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 98.8752° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.7426° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SSW of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-08 09:34:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-08 10:00:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.84 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 573 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 1.414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us10003vph Id of event.
Event Code 10003vph An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vph, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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