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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Sinabang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.3419S, 97.3116WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 163 km SE of Sinabang, Indonesia (101 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us200050lf. Unique identifier: us200050lf. Exact location of earthquake, 97.3116° East, 1.3419° North, depth 35 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:13:46 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/02/16 / 2016-02-12 21:13:46 / February 12, 2016 @ 9:13 pm. 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 163 km SE of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.3116° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.3419° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163km SE 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 2016-02-12 21:13:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-27 23:49:13 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 246 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 0.266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 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 us200050lf Id of event.
Event Code 200050lf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200050lf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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