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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Banda Aceh in Indonesia


Earthquake location 5.0458S, 95.5159WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Banda Aceh in Indonesia on Sunday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:08:18 / 2:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/16 / 2016-05-01 07:08:18 / May 1, 2016 @ 7:08 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.5159 East, latitude 5.0458 North, depth = 95.54 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005ctk. Id of event: us10005ctk. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95.54 km (59 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Reuleuet, Sigli, Banda Aceh. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 60 km SSE of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.5159° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.0458° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km SSE of Banda Aceh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-01 07:08:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-01 07:42:01 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 1.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us10005ctk Id of event.
Event Code 10005ctk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ctk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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