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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 57 km W of Sinabang, Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.5685S, 95.8708WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 95.8708 East, latitude 2.5685 North, depth = 28.99 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:51:06 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.99 km (18 miles). Global time and date of event 08/01/18 / 2018-01-08 15:51:06 / January 8, 2018 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000c214. Id of event: us1000c214.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km W of Sinabang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.8708° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.5685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km W 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 2018-01-08 15:51:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-08 16:50:13 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 298 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 2.116 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us1000c214 Id of event.
Event Code 1000c214 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c214, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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