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Light earthquake 4 mag, 18 km SW of Reuleuet, Indonesia


Earthquake location 5.1146S, 96.1531WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Reuleuet in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200080ru. Id of event: us200080ru. Exact location of earthquake, 96.1531° East, 5.1146° North, depth 12.73 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.73 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/16 / 2016-12-07 16:43:01 / December 7, 2016 @ 4:43 pm. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:43:01 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bireun, Sigli, Reuleuet (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km SW of Reuleuet, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.1531° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.1146° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SW of Reuleuet, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-07 16:43:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-16 05:09:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 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 0.799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 us200080ru Id of event.
Event Code 200080ru An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200080ru, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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