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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 79 km SW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.5866S, 100.876WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:18:05 / 5:18 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60003rc2. Event ids that are associated: us60003rc2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 22:18:05 / May 16, 2019 @ 10:18 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.5 km (40 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 100.876 East, latitude -2.5866 South, depth = 64.5 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop).

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. 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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km SW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.876° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.5866° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km SW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-16 22:18:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-24 03:15:06 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 2.722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us60003rc2 Id of event.
Event Code 60003rc2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003rc2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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