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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Banda Aceh in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.9864S, 93.3111WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 231 km WSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia (144 miles) on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100034nc. Id of event: us100034nc. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.59 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 93.3111 East, latitude 4.9864 North, depth = 31.59 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/08/15 / 2015-08-25 03:29:35 / August 25, 2015 @ 3:29 am UTC/GMT. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:29:35 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 231 km WSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 93.3111° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.9864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 231km WSW 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 2015-08-25 03:29:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-25 03:45:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 400 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 3.629 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us100034nc Id of event.
Event Code 100034nc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034nc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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