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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Pasarbaru in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.9878S, 100.1438WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 85 km SSW of Pasarbaru, Indonesia (53 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007fsg. Id of event: us20007fsg. The temblor was picked up at 08:45:01 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 01:45:01 / October 21, 2016 @ 1:45 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 100.1438 East, latitude -1.9878 South, depth = 57.34 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.34 km (36 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 85 km SSW of Pasarbaru, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.1438° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.9878° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km SSW of Pasarbaru, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-21 01:45:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 02:10:52 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 2.466 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us20007fsg Id of event.
Event Code 20007fsg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fsg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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