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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 119 km W of Pariaman, Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.7839S, 99.0581WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 119 km W of Pariaman, Indonesia (74 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.06 km (28 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:17:17 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 99.0581° East, latitude -0.7839° South, depth = 45.06 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/24 / 2024-12-19 01:17:17 / December 19, 2024 @ 1:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000nzxm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nzxm.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 119 km W of Pariaman, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.0581° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.7839° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119 km W of Pariaman, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-19 01:17:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-19 01:36:06 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 326 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us7000nzxm Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzxm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzxm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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