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Magnitude4.3

Reviewed by USGSIndonesia26y ago

M4.3 earthquake 253 km SSW of Pagar Alam, Indonesia

Tuesday, September 5, 2000, 01:54:36 UTC · 6.200°S, 102.531°E

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 253 km SSW of Pagar Alam, Indonesia on Tuesday, September 5, 2000, 01:54:36 UTC, at a depth of 33.0 km (shallow).

Magnitude
4.3
Light · mb
Depth
33 km
Shallow
Felt reports
0
Did You Feel It?
Est. shaking
—
No ShakeMap
PAGER alert
None
Not issued
Tsunami
No flag
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In context

How big was it, and why here?

Energy released

43 tons of TNT

That is about 1/354 of the Hiroshima bomb. A magnitude 5.0 releases about 11 times more energy.

Tectonic setting

82 km

from the nearest mapped plate boundary, between the Sunda and Australian plates. Earthquakes cluster along boundaries like this one, where plates collide, pull apart or slide past each other.

Depth: shallow

33 km

Shallow earthquakes (under 70 km) produce the strongest surface shaking for their size, so they are the ones most likely to cause damage near the epicenter.

Did You Feel It?

Where it was felt

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USGS PAGER estimate

Who was exposed to shaking

USGS publishes PAGER impact estimates for significant earthquakes, usually within an hour. No PAGER estimate is available for this event.

After the main event

Aftershocks within 50 km

USGS has not published any M2.5+ earthquake within 50 km in the 30 days after this event.

Regional history

Past M5+ earthquakes within 300 km

USGS lists 527 M5.0+ earthquakes within 300 km before this one (catalog from 1900; older records are less complete). The strongest:

  1. 7.9103 km S of Bengkulu, IndonesiaJune 4, 2000 · 172 km N of this epicenter
  2. 7.573 km WSW of Bengkulu, IndonesiaJune 25, 1914 · 263 km N of this epicenter
  3. 7.548 km SW of Kotabumi, IndonesiaJune 24, 1933 · 258 km NE of this epicenter
  4. 7.3161 km S of Bengkulu, IndonesiaSeptember 25, 1931 · 108 km N of this epicenter
  5. 7.0164 km SSW of Pagar Alam, IndonesiaFebruary 10, 1931 · 94 km N of this epicenter
  6. 7.0119 km S of Bengkulu, IndonesiaOctober 1, 1975 · 151 km N of this epicenter
  7. 7.061 km S of Bengkulu, IndonesiaApril 8, 1971 · 207 km N of this epicenter
  8. 6.966 km WSW of Kotabumi, IndonesiaFebruary 15, 1994 · 239 km NE of this epicenter

History · NOAA

Deadliest earthquakes in this area

NOAA’s significant-earthquake database lists 12 damaging, deadly or tsunami-generating earthquakes within 300 km of this epicenter since 1700, which together caused about 331 recorded deaths. The most severe:

  1. 1994M6.9

    Southern Sumatera, Liwa, Lampung

    15 Feb 1994 · 239 km away

    207 deaths$170 million damage

  2. 2000M7.9

    Sumatra: Bengkulu, Enggano

    4 Jun 2000 · 172 km away · intensity VI

    103 deaths$6 million damage

  3. 1914M7.6

    Sumatera

    25 Jun 1914 · 265 km away

    20 deathsLimited damage (under $1M)tsunami

  4. 2000M6.7

    Southern Sumatera: Lahat

    7 Jun 2000 · 190 km away

    1 deathModerate damage ($1–5M)

  5. 1770M7.0

    Sumatra:

    1770 · 146 km away

    Severe damage ($5–24M)tsunami

  6. 1986M5.0

    Sumatera: S, Hahat, Muaraenim

    29 Jan 1986 · 275 km away

    Severe damage ($5–24M)

NOAA NCEI Global Significant Earthquake Database. Historical figures are estimates; older records are incomplete.

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