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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Parapat in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.4396S, 99.049WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Parapat in Indonesia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 21/10/15 / 2015-10-21 21:04:31 / October 21, 2015 @ 9:04 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 04:04:31 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 99.049° East, latitude 2.4396° North, depth = 146.74 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 146.74 km (91 miles). Unique identifier: us10003qet. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003qet.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tebingtinggi, Kabanjahe, Rantauprapat. Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Pematangsiantar (c. 209 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kisaran (c. 129 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Tebingtinggi (c. 117 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Rantauprapat (c. 103 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kabanjahe (c. 57 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pekan Bahapal (c. 40 000 pop). Close 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km SSE of Parapat, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.049° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.4396° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 146.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SSE 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 2015-10-21 21:04:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-21 21:26:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 354 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 1.855 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us10003qet Id of event.
Event Code 10003qet An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003qet, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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