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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Palu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.7567S, 120.5045WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h744. Id of event: us1000h744. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 14:10:49 / September 28, 2018 @ 2:10 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 120.5045 East, latitude -0.7567 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:10:49 / 10:10 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poso, Palu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 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: 72 km ENE of Palu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.5045° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.7567° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km ENE 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 2018-09-28 14:10:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-07 12:34:39 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 326 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 1.876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us1000h744 Id of event.
Event Code 1000h744 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h744, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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