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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Reuleuet in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.8201S, 96.0787WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Reuleuet in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.78 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 16:35:15 / December 7, 2015 @ 4:35 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:35:15 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.78 km, 96.0787° East, 4.8201° North. Id of earthquake: us100044r3. Event ids that are associated: us100044r3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bireun, Meulaboh, Sigli.

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

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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: 49 km SSW of Reuleuet, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.0787° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.8201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km SSW 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 2015-12-07 16:35:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-08 15:12:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.955 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us100044r3 Id of event.
Event Code 100044r3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044r3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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