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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Sabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 6.5008S, 94.9761WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Sabang in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.51 km (27 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 43.51 km, 94.9761° East, 6.5008° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003vwl. Unique identifier: us10003vwl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 06:12:18 / November 9, 2015 @ 6:12 am. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:12:18 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sabang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Sabang (c. 24 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 77 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.9761° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.5008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2015-11-09 06:12:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-09 06:29:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 432 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 2.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10003vwl Id of event.
Event Code 10003vwl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vwl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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