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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Muara Siberut in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.9326S, 99.6708WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 63 km SE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia (39 miles). Unique identifier: us2000giae. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000giae. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 15:10:01 / July 26, 2018 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:10:01 / 10:10 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.08 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 99.6708 East, latitude -1.9326 South, depth = 35.08 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km SE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.6708° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.9326° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SE 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 2018-07-26 15:10:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-23 22:03:29 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 284 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 4.655 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us2000giae Id of event.
Event Code 2000giae An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000giae, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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