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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Solok in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.1384S, 100.8382WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Solok in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/20 / 2020-11-19 20:12:14 / November 19, 2020 @ 8:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.8382 East, latitude -1.1384 South, depth = 102.22 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:12:14 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 102.22 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000crp1. Id of event: us6000crp1.

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Solok (c. 48 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Sijunjung (c. 27 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Padang, Sijunjung, Solok. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 42 km SSE of Solok, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.8382° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.1384° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km SSE of Solok, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-19 20:12:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-04 01:29:31 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 1.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us6000crp1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000crp1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000crp1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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