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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Banda Aceh in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.9457S, 94.719WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Banda Aceh in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 06:38:56 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20002vwj. Unique identifier: us20002vwj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.82 km (30 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 94.719 East, latitude 4.9457 North, depth = 47.82 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 00:38:56 / July 8, 2015 @ 12:38 am.

Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Banda Aceh (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 95 km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.719° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.9457° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-08 00:38:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-08 01:01:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 432 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 2.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us20002vwj Id of event.
Event Code 20002vwj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002vwj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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