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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Pasarbaru in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.658S, 100.0431WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Pasarbaru in Indonesia on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.99 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/06/16 / 2016-06-04 03:18:43 / June 4, 2016 @ 3:18 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us200061zv. Unique identifier: us200061zv. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:18:43 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.0431 East, latitude -1.658 South, depth = 31.99 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Padang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days twelve 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 64 km SW of Pasarbaru, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.0431° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.658° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km SW of Pasarbaru, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-04 03:18:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-04 03:38:31 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.208 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 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 us200061zv Id of event.
Event Code 200061zv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200061zv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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