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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Sibolga in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.8686S, 97.8965WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 137 km SW of Sibolga, Indonesia (85 miles) on Monday. Id of earthquake: us100034cv. Event ids that are associated: us100034cv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.29 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:39:46 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/08/15 / 2015-08-23 20:39:46 / August 23, 2015 @ 8:39 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 97.8965 East, latitude 0.8686 North, depth = 29.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 137 km SW of Sibolga, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.8965° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.8686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137km SW of Sibolga, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-23 20:39:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-23 20:53:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 340 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 0.538 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us100034cv Id of event.
Event Code 100034cv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034cv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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