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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Sinabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.2964S, 97.1064WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 153 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia (95 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 10:33:18 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 03:33:18 / January 4, 2016 @ 3:33 am. Event id: us10004dzp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004dzp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 97.1064 East, latitude 1.2964 North, depth = 29.24 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.24 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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: 153 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.1064° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.2964° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-04 03:33:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-15 01:29:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 0.469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us10004dzp Id of event.
Event Code 10004dzp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004dzp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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