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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Bandar in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.8024S, 99.5667WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Bandar in Indonesia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000erkj. Event ids that are associated: us1000erkj. Exact location, longitude 99.5667° East, latitude 1.8024° North, depth = 175.65 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 175.65 km (109 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 11:34:08 / June 11, 2018 @ 11:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:34:08 / 6:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Rantauprapat (c. 103 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Padangsidempuan (c. 100 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Bandar (c. 31 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sibolga, Padangsidempuan, Rantauprapat. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SW of Bandar, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.5667° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 175.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SW of Bandar, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-11 11:34:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-22 16:00:51 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 298 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 1.094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us1000erkj Id of event.
Event Code 1000erkj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000erkj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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