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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Banda Aceh in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.9266S, 94.8955WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Banda Aceh in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126.35 km (79 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:40:45 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 94.8955 East, latitude 4.9266 North, depth = 126.35 km. Event id: us100076py. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100076py. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/11/16 / 2016-11-10 17:40:45 / November 10, 2016 @ 5:40 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Banda Aceh. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 84 km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.8955° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.9266° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km SW 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 2016-11-10 17:40:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 18:52:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 271 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 2.065 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us100076py Id of event.
Event Code 100076py An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100076py, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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