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

Posted by admin on August 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.9609S, 99.4208WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 46 km SSE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia (29 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 09:49:27 / August 5, 2018 @ 9:49 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 99.4208° East, -1.9609° South, depth 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:49:27 / 4:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000g5sx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g5sx.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 46 km SSE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.4208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.9609° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SSE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-05 09:49:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-10 08:13:06 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 2.789 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us1000g5sx Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5sx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5sx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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