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Strong earthquake 6.5 mag, 91 km W of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia

Posted by admin on June 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.207S, 100.5739WA earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 05:56:00 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 22:56:00 / June 1, 2016 @ 10:56 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 50.77 km, 100.5739° East, -2.207° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.77 km (32 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sungaipenuh in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005zt1. Unique identifier: us20005zt1.

Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 91 km W of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.5739° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.207° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km W of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-01 22:56:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-01 23:19:24 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 6.02 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 650 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 2.559 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005zt1 Id of event.
Event Code 20005zt1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zt1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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