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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Sungaipenuh in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.8625S, 101.1191WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 95.79 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/03/17 / 2017-03-03 03:43:12 / March 3, 2017 @ 3:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 101.1191 East, latitude -2.8625 South, depth = 95.79 km. The temblor was detected at 10:43:12 / 10:43 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000887p. Unique identifier: us1000887p.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km SSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 101.1191° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8625° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km SSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-03 03:43:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-11 03:41:02 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 298 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 2.36 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us1000887p Id of event.
Event Code 1000887p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000887p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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