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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 110 km SW of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.7757S, 98.4686WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 110 km SW of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia (68 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/04/17 / 2017-04-30 16:37:29 / April 30, 2017 @ 4:37 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10008m8k. Event ids that are associated: us10008m8k. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 98.4686 East, latitude 0.7757 North, depth = 54.77 km. The temblor was detected at 23:37:29 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Padangsidempuan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.77 km (34 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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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. 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: 110 km SW of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 98.4686° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.7757° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km SW of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-30 16:37:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-30 17:08:33 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 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 385 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 1.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us10008m8k Id of event.
Event Code 10008m8k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008m8k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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