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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Mamuju in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.0931S, 119.2365WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Mamuju in Indonesia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.01 km (26 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/20 / 2020-09-13 17:00:00 / September 13, 2020 @ 5:00 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000bmqx. Event ids that are associated: us7000bmqx. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.2365 East, latitude -2.0931 South, depth = 42.01 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:00:00 / 5:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mamuju (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km NNE of Mamuju, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.2365° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.0931° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km NNE of Mamuju, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-13 17:00:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-13 17:22:27 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 369 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 2.528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us7000bmqx Id of event.
Event Code 7000bmqx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bmqx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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