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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Tanjungagung in Indonesia

Posted by admin on March 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.0434S, 103.6412WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Tanjungagung in Indonesia on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 152.31 km (95 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:40:47 / 1:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 103.6412 East, latitude -4.0434 South, depth = 152.31 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/03/18 / 2018-03-22 06:40:47 / March 22, 2018 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d7eh. Id of event: us1000d7eh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Prabumulih, Baturaja, Pageralam. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Baturaja (c. 134 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Prabumulih (c. 103 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Lahat (c. 65 900 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Tanjungagung (c. 53 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 SW of Tanjungagung, 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 103.6412° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.0434° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SW of Tanjungagung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-22 06:40:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-22 07:13:26 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 0.752 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us1000d7eh Id of event.
Event Code 1000d7eh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d7eh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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