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This earthquake includes a shallow tectonic earthquake.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PADANG – The people of West Sumatra are shocked by the earthquakes on Saturday (21/7) afternoon. In the city of Padang, for example, people are scattered to escape the center of the crowd, such as shopping malls and other public facilities.
Rahmat Triyono, head of the Tsunami Meteorology and Meteorology Center , meteorological and geophysical (BMKG) WIB with epicenter 15 kilometers (km) southwest of Solok City is magnitude M 5.4 Richter Scale (SR). This figure is updated from the previous version, 5.5 SR. Earthquakes are also recorded centered at a depth of 14 km.
Rahmat explains, taking into account the location of the epicenter and the depth of the hypocenter, the superficial tectonic earthquake or the shallow crustal earthquake caused by the activities of the Sumatra fault zone in the Sumani sector. . The results of the badysis of the mechanism of the source, he continued, show that the earthquake is generated by the deformation of the rock by the mechanism of the movement of the slide See also, A citizen was victim of the Solok earthquake
The impact of the earthquake based on the Shakemap map (Shakemap BMKG) shows that shocks are felt, inter alia, in the Padang areas and Painan on the I-II scale of earthquake intensity scale or MMI-II. According to community reports, this earthquake was felt in Gunungtalang at level II GMI BMI (MMI V), Padang II SIG BMKG (III-IV MMI), Bukittinggi II SIG BMKG (III MMI), Padang Panjang and Padang Pariaman I-II BMKG SIG (II-III MMI), and Sawahlunto I BMKG SIG (II MMI).
"Until now, there has been no report on the impact of the earthquake damage.The results show that the earthquake is not a potential tsunami, "said Rahmat Saturday (21/7). did not indicate the presence of a subsequent seismic activity ( replica ). BMKG urges the public to remain calm and not be affected by problems that can not be justified by the truth.
Earlier Saturday morning (21/7) at 14:58, the 5.4 SR earthquake occurred with its center at coordinates 1.78 LS and 99.72 BT or 31 kilometers northeast of the Mentawai Islands, with a depth of 10 kilometers. Strong shocks are enough to wake up a number of residents. (F, b, e, v, n, t, s) {if (f.fbq) returns; n = f.fbq = function () {n.callMethod? N.callMethod.apply (n, arguments): n.queue.push (arguments)}; if (! f._fbq) f._fbq = n; n.push = n; n .loaded =! 0; n.version = 2.0 & # 39 ;; not. tail = []; t = b.createElement (e); t.async =! 0; t.src = v; s = b.getElementsByTagName (e) [0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore (t, s)} (window, document, 'script', 'https: //connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq (& # 39 ;, & # 39; 186784942049922 & # 39;); fbq (& # 39; & # 39; PageView & # 39;)
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