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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Banda Aceh in Indonesia


Earthquake location 5.151S, 94.6913WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Banda Aceh in Indonesia on Sunday. Unique identifier: us100044dv. Ids that are associated to the event: us100044dv. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/15 / 2015-12-06 05:16:08 / December 6, 2015 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 53.38 km, 94.6913° East, 5.151° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.38 km (33 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:16:08 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Banda Aceh (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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: 83 km WSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6913° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km WSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-06 05:16:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-06 06:18:01 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 326 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 2.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us100044dv Id of event.
Event Code 100044dv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044dv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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