Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9, Tsunami warning alerts

Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Sumatra in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.192S, 94.3875WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia (0 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sumatra in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.65 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/03/16 / 2016-03-04 20:20:54 / March 4, 2016 @ 8:20 pm. Unique identifier: us10004uta. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004uta. The temblor was detected at 02:20:54 / 2:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 94.3875 East, latitude -4.192 South, depth = 12.65 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

Did you feel it?

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: Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.3875° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.192° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-04 20:20:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-04 20:35:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 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 400 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 6.32 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10004uta Id of event.
Event Code 10004uta An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004uta, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply