A 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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