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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Muara Siberut in Indonesia

Posted by admin on March 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.8385S, 100.0637WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 166 km SE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia (103 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:11:06 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/02/19 / 2019-02-02 10:11:06 / February 2, 2019 @ 10:11 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jn65. Unique identifier: us2000jn65. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.0637 East, latitude -2.8385 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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: 166 km SE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.0637° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.8385° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 166km SE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-02 10:11:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-02 07:58:50 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 340 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 3.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us2000jn65 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jn65 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jn65, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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