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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Pasarbaru in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.6463S, 100.3477WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pasarbaru in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007s3x. Unique identifier: us10007s3x. The epicenter was at a depth of 63.5 km (39 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/17 / 2017-01-09 11:28:38 / January 9, 2017 @ 11:28 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Pasarbaru in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.3477 East, latitude -1.6463 South, depth = 63.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:28:38 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Solok (c. 48 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Solok, Padang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 41 km SSW of Pasarbaru, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.3477° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.6463° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km 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 2017-01-09 11:28:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-09 11:54:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.91 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 466 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 2.077 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us10007s3x Id of event.
Event Code 10007s3x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007s3x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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