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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Pagaralam in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.338S, 102.9257WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Pagaralam in Indonesia. Event id: us1000992b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000992b. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 102.9257 East, latitude -4.338 South, depth = 62.58 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:38:58 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 62.58 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/17 / 2017-07-05 14:38:58 / July 5, 2017 @ 2:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bengkulu, Lahat, Pageralam. Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Lahat (c. 65 900 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 51 km SW of Pagaralam, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.9257° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.338° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km SW of Pagaralam, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-05 14:38:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-23 05:24:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.037 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us1000992b Id of event.
Event Code 1000992b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000992b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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