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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Reuleuet in Indonesia


Earthquake location 5.2775S, 96.4632WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Reuleuet in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 15:01:34 / 3:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/02/17 / 2017-02-25 08:01:34 / February 25, 2017 @ 8:01 am. Exact location of event, depth 27.79 km, 96.4632° East, 5.2775° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100086tj. Id of event: us100086tj. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.79 km (17 miles).

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Lhokseumawe (c. 89 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lhokseumawe, Sigli, Bireun (min 5000 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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 21 km ENE of Reuleuet, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.4632° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.2775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ENE 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 2017-02-25 08:01:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-12 12:11:13 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 284 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 0.484 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us100086tj Id of event.
Event Code 100086tj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100086tj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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