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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Sinabang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.1092S, 97.1382WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 173 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia (107 miles) on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003g7t. Id of event: us20003g7t. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 97.1382 East, latitude 1.1092 North, depth = 34.1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:02:14 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/09/15 / 2015-09-04 08:02:14 / September 4, 2015 @ 8:02 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.1 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 173 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.1382° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.1092° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-04 08:02:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-23 08:14:31 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 312 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 0.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us20003g7t Id of event.
Event Code 20003g7t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003g7t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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