Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Sabang in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 139 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia (86 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 94.6467° East, 6.9568° North, depth 26.25 km. Id of earthquake: us10003z22. Event ids that are associated: us10003z22. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 12:06:29 / November 8, 2015 @ 12:06 pm. The temblor was detected at 18:06:29 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 139 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	94.6467° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.9568° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	139km 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 12:06:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-24 07:47:31	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	340	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	2.86	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97	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	us10003z22	Id of event.
Event Code	10003z22	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003z22,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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