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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Painan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.8712S, 100.2824WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Painan in Indonesia on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us2000giip. Event ids that are associated: us2000giip. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.59 km (39 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 100.2824 East, latitude -1.8712 South, depth = 62.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 31/07/18 / 2018-07-31 20:28:57 / July 31, 2018 @ 8:28 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:28:57 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Padang. Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 65 km SSW of Painan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.2824° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.8712° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km SSW of Painan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-31 20:28:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-31 20:48:57 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 369 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 2.31 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us2000giip Id of event.
Event Code 2000giip An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000giip, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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