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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Rindingallo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on November 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.8033S, 119.5894WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Rindingallo in Indonesia on Friday. Global time and date of event 08/11/18 / 2018-11-08 18:42:53 / November 8, 2018 @ 6:42 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 119.5894° East, -2.8033° South, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000hpc2. Event ids that are associated: us1000hpc2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:42:53 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mamuju, Polewali, Palopo. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 27 km WNW of Rindingallo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.5894° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8033° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km WNW of Rindingallo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-08 18:42:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-09 00:57:08 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 2.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us1000hpc2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hpc2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hpc2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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