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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Reuleuet in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.7272S, 96.1806WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Reuleuet in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 01:05:49 / 1:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 96.1806 East, latitude 4.7272 North, depth = 25.06 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e90z. Unique identifier: us1000e90z. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/05/18 / 2018-05-20 18:05:49 / May 20, 2018 @ 6:05 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.06 km (16 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bireun, Sigli, Meulaboh (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km SSW of Reuleuet, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.1806° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.7272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km SSW 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 2018-05-20 18:05:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-20 20:42:19 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 3.674 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us1000e90z Id of event.
Event Code 1000e90z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e90z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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