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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Reuleuet in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.9734S, 96.0073WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Reuleuet in Indonesia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 00:01:39 / November 7, 2015 @ 12:01 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.06 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10003x1j. Event ids that are associated: us10003x1j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 96.0073 East, latitude 4.9734 North, depth = 28.06 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:01:39 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Meulaboh, Bireun, Sigli (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 40 km SW of Reuleuet, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.0073° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.9734° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SW of Reuleuet, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-07 00:01:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-16 03:36:27 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 284 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 0.97 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us10003x1j Id of event.
Event Code 10003x1j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003x1j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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