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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Sungaipenuh in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.2298S, 100.7614WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us1000g1z3. Event ids that are associated: us1000g1z3. Global time and date of event 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 20:38:32 / July 28, 2018 @ 8:38 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 03:38:32 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.45 km (40 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 100.7614° East, -2.2298° South, depth 64.45 km.

The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 71 km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.7614° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.2298° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km WSW 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 2018-07-28 20:38:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-17 02:06:19 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 2.554 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us1000g1z3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g1z3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g1z3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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