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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 71 km NNW of Sinabang, Indonesia

Posted by admin on March 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.1127S, 96.2385WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia on Friday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sinabang in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20005dql. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005dql. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.74 km (24 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 96.2385° East, 3.1127° North, depth 38.74 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/03/16 / 2016-03-31 19:38:46 / March 31, 2016 @ 7:38 pm. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:38:46 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 71 km NNW of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.2385° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.1127° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NNW 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 2016-03-31 19:38:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-31 20:00:28 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 1 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 400 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 2.217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us20005dql Id of event.
Event Code 20005dql An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dql, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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