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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Padangsidempuan in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.2731S, 99.7803WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Padangsidempuan in Indonesia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 194.31 km (121 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 16:03:25 / March 24, 2019 @ 4:03 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:03:25 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 99.7803 East, latitude 1.2731 North, depth = 194.31 km. Id of earthquake: us2000k8mu. Event ids that are associated: us2000k8mu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bandar, Padangsidempuan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Padangsidempuan (c. 100 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Bandar (c. 31 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km E of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.7803° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.2731° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 194.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km E of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-24 16:03:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-01 21:22:02 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 259 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 1.571 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us2000k8mu Id of event.
Event Code 2000k8mu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k8mu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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