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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, off the west coast of northern Sumatra


Earthquake location 5.6469S, 93.3583WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported off the west coast of northern Sumatra (0 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.15 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 93.3583 East, latitude 5.6469 North, depth = 35.15 km. Id of earthquake: us200031b6. Event ids that are associated: us200031b6. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/15 / 2015-07-10 03:19:35 / July 10, 2015 @ 3:19 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:19:35 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: off the west coast of northern Sumatra. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.3583° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6469° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place off the west coast of northern Sumatra Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-10 03:19:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-30 04:28:48 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 3.597 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us200031b6 Id of event.
Event Code 200031b6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200031b6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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