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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Pagar Alam in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.4168S, 102.8282WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Pagar Alam in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.46 km (40 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:49:46 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/20 / 2020-08-07 17:49:46 / August 7, 2020 @ 5:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000be01. Event ids that are associated: us6000be01. Exact location of earthquake, 102.8282° East, -4.4168° South, depth 64.46 km.

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Bengkulu (c. 309 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bengkulu, Pageralam (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-four 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.

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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: 63 km SW of Pagar Alam, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.8282° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.4168° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km SW of Pagar Alam, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-07 17:49:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-04 14:38:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 0.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us6000be01 Id of event.
Event Code 6000be01 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000be01, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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