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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Sibolga in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.7366S, 98.202WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Sibolga in Indonesia on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/02/16 / 2016-02-20 17:38:13 / February 20, 2016 @ 5:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75.32 km (47 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004rer. Id of event: us10004rer. Exact location of event, depth 75.32 km, 98.202° East, 1.7366° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:38:13 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sibolga. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop).

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 64 km W of Sibolga, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 98.202° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.7366° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km W of Sibolga, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-20 17:38:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-20 19:07:44 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 0.759 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us10004rer Id of event.
Event Code 10004rer An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004rer, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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