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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Onan Ganjang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.2464S, 98.8036WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Onan Ganjang in Indonesia on Monday. The temblor was reported at 09:43:10 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/09/16 / 2016-09-19 02:43:10 / September 19, 2016 @ 2:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 98.8036° East, latitude 2.2464° North, depth = 33.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.6 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006qrt. Unique identifier: us10006qrt.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Pematangsiantar (c. 209 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pematangsiantar, Sibolga (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km ENE of Onan Ganjang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 98.8036° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.2464° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ENE of Onan Ganjang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-19 02:43:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-19 03:15:00 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 312 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 0.46 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us10006qrt Id of event.
Event Code 10006qrt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006qrt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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