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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Sabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 6.6095S, 94.6958WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 105 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia (65 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 94.6958 East, latitude 6.6095 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:03:00 / 1:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 07:03:00 / November 9, 2015 @ 7:03 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10003vwq. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003vwq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 105 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6958° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.6095° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km 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 07:03:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 07:28:17 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 2.626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us10003vwq Id of event.
Event Code 10003vwq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vwq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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