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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Padangsidempuan in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.9064S, 99.3425WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Padangsidempuan in Indonesia on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us100041eq. Event ids that are associated: us100041eq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 111.74 km, 99.3425° East, 0.9064° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 111.74 km (69 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:05:23 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 13:05:23 / November 25, 2015 @ 1:05 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Padangsidempuan (c. 100 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Padangsidempuan (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 51 km S of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.3425° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.9064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km S 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 2015-11-25 13:05:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-23 10:54:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 326 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 1.792 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us100041eq Id of event.
Event Code 100041eq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041eq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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