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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 137 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia

Posted by admin on November 8, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.0249S, 94.8129WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 137 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia (85 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 10:53:35 / November 8, 2015 @ 10:53 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003vq6. Unique identifier: us10003vq6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.84 km (33 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 94.8129° East, latitude 7.0249° North, depth = 53.84 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:53:35 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 137 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.8129° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.0249° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-08 10:53:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-08 11:11:05 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 369 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 2.772 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us10003vq6 Id of event.
Event Code 10003vq6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vq6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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