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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Sungaipenuh in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.9038S, 101.0846WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64.14 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 16:09:31 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 101.0846° East, -2.9038° South, depth 64.14 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60007m22. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007m22. Global time and date of event 01/02/20 / 2020-02-01 09:09:31 / February 1, 2020 @ 9:09 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 96 km SSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 101.0846° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9038° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km SSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-01 09:09:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-01 09:25:51 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 369 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 2.362 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us60007m22 Id of event.
Event Code 60007m22 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007m22, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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