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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 61 km W of Pangkalan Brandan, Indonesia


Earthquake location 3.9588S, 97.7244WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Pangkalan Brandan in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/20 / 2020-09-28 18:16:13 / September 28, 2020 @ 6:16 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c275. Unique identifier: us6000c275. Exact location of earthquake, 97.7244° East, 3.9588° North, depth 56.05 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:16:13 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.05 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Langsa (c. 54 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Stabat (c. 26 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Pangkalan Brandan (c. 25 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tanjungtiram (c. 25 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stabat, Tanjungtiram, Langsa (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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 61 km W of Pangkalan Brandan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.7244° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.9588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km W of Pangkalan Brandan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-28 18:16:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-30 16:18:44 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 284 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 1.48 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us6000c275 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c275 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c275, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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