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


Earthquake location 2.6298S, 99.1911WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Parapat in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 171.68 km (107 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/07/18 / 2018-07-13 18:02:43 / July 13, 2018 @ 6:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:02:43 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 99.1911° East, 2.6298° North, depth 171.68 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g4ds. Id of event: us2000g4ds.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kabanjahe, Rantauprapat, Bandar. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Pematangsiantar (c. 209 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tanjungbalai (c. 142 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kisaran (c. 129 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Tebingtinggi (c. 117 500 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Rantauprapat (c. 103 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kabanjahe (c. 57 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Pekan Bahapal (c. 40 000 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 has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 28 km E of Parapat, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.1911° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.6298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km E 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 2018-07-13 18:02:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-14 15:04:22 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 2.083 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us2000g4ds Id of event.
Event Code 2000g4ds An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g4ds, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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