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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Kabanjahe in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 4, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.2999S, 98.3861WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Kabanjahe in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 19:46:11 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/17 / 2017-01-16 12:46:11 / January 16, 2017 @ 12:46 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 98.3861 East, latitude 3.2999 North, depth = 3.69 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10007wny. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007wny. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.69 km (2 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pekan Bahapal, Tebingtinggi, Pematangsiantar (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (28 miles) from Medan (c. 1 751 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Percut (c. 311 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Binjai (c. 228 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pematangsiantar (c. 209 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Sunggal (c. 157 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Perbaungan (c. 157 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tebingtinggi (c. 117 500 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km NNW of Kabanjahe, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 98.3861° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.2999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NNW of Kabanjahe, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-16 12:46:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-04 09:15:46 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 326 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 0.806 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us10007wny Id of event.
Event Code 10007wny An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007wny, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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