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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 96 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia


Earthquake location 6.571S, 94.7657WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 96 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia (60 miles) on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.18 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:21:33 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 07:21:33 / November 9, 2015 @ 7:21 am. Unique identifier: us10003xuw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003xuw. Exact location, longitude 94.7657° East, latitude 6.571° North, depth = 25.18 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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: 96 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7657° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.571° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km NW 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 07:21:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 12:42:32 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 298 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 2.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us10003xuw Id of event.
Event Code 10003xuw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003xuw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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