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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sungaipenuh in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.3163S, 100.7438WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/18 / 2018-09-09 05:11:18 / September 9, 2018 @ 5:11 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:11:18 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 100.7438 East, latitude -2.3163 South, depth = 55.8 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000hgpr. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hgpr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.8 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 75 km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.7438° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.3163° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2018-09-09 05:11:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-03 07:53:35 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 2.641 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 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 us2000hgpr Id of event.
Event Code 2000hgpr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hgpr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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