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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Palu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.9001S, 119.7308WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Palu in Indonesia on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.72 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:20:34 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/09/18 / 2018-09-21 23:20:34 / September 21, 2018 @ 11:20 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hih9. Id of event: us2000hih9. Exact location of event, longitude 119.7308 East, latitude -0.9001 South, depth = 25.72 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 15 km W of Palu, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.7308° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9001° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km W of Palu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-21 23:20:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-22 00:13:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 354 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 2.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000hih9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hih9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hih9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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