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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Onan Ganjang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on June 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.3862S, 97.9499WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Onan Ganjang in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 97.9499° East, latitude 2.3862° North, depth = 64.94 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 07:38:28 / May 17, 2016 @ 7:38 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.94 km (40 miles). Unique identifier: us10005hwq. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005hwq. The temblor was detected at 14:38:28 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Kabanjahe (c. 57 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kabanjahe. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 79 km WNW of Onan Ganjang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.9499° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.3862° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km WNW of Onan Ganjang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-17 07:38:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-03 12:43:07 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 340 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 1.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us10005hwq Id of event.
Event Code 10005hwq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005hwq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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