A 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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