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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near southern Sumatra, Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.7118S, 102.7637WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, southern Sumatra, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from southern Sumatra, Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 102.7637 East, latitude -4.7118 South, depth = 61.73 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000am1i. Id of event: us7000am1i. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/07/20 / 2020-07-11 20:54:32 / July 11, 2020 @ 8:54 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.73 km (38 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:54:32 / 8:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pageralam (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: southern Sumatra, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.7637° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.7118° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southern Sumatra, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-11 20:54:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-11 21:51:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us7000am1i Id of event.
Event Code 7000am1i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000am1i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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