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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kotatua in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.3396S, 100.3751WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Kotatua in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 19/03/19 / 2019-03-19 18:17:24 / March 19, 2019 @ 6:17 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000jiqb. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jiqb. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.3751 East, latitude -0.3396 South, depth = 53.35 km. The temblor was detected at 01:17:24 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.35 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Payakumbuh (c. 121 600 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Bukittinggi (c. 98 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pariaman (c. 92 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Solok (c. 48 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sijunjung (c. 27 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sijunjung, Padang, Solok (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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 1 km ENE of Kotatua, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.3751° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.3396° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km ENE of Kotatua, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-19 18:17:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-19 19:18:22 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 298 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 0.937 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us1000jiqb Id of event.
Event Code 1000jiqb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jiqb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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