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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sinabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.1471S, 96.7318WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/17 / 2017-10-02 13:25:48 / October 2, 2017 @ 1:25 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:25:48 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.7318 East, latitude 2.1471 North, depth = 30.26 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000b3kj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000b3kj. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.26 km (19 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 53 km SE of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.7318° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.1471° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SE of Sinabang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-02 13:25:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-18 20:05:49 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 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 1.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us2000b3kj Id of event.
Event Code 2000b3kj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b3kj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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