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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Palu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.4834S, 119.9729WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Palu in Indonesia on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48.87 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:49:50 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 48.87 km, 119.9729° East, -0.4834° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005dby. Unique identifier: us20005dby. Global time and date of event 23/03/16 / 2016-03-23 10:49:50 / March 23, 2016 @ 10:49 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palu. Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 46 km NNE of Palu, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.9729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.4834° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km NNE of Palu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-23 10:49:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-16 10:55:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 234 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 1.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us20005dby Id of event.
Event Code 20005dby An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dby, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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