Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Parapat in Indonesia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Parapat in Indonesia. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:51:23 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/24 / 2024-09-19 02:51:23 / September 19, 2024 @ 2:51 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 99.0857° East, latitude 2.7382° North, depth = 165.946 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 165.946 km (103 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000ntvh. Event ids that are associated: us6000ntvh.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Teluk Nibung, Tanjungbalai, Kabanjahe. Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (15 miles) from Pematangsiantar (c. 209 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tanjungbalai (c. 142 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Kisaran (c. 129 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tebingtinggi (c. 117 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kabanjahe (c. 57 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Pekan Bahapal (c. 40 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, 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 has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 18 km ENE of Parapat, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	99.0857° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	2.7382° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	165.946 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ENE of Parapat, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-19 02:51:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-29 03:40:36	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	271	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.167	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us6000ntvh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ntvh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ntvh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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