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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Sinabang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.3523S, 96.323WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:00:50 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.42 km (18 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000it33. Id of event: us2000it33. Exact location of event, depth 29.42 km, 96.323° East, 2.3523° North. Global time and date of event 13/12/18 / 2018-12-13 00:00:50 / December 13, 2018 @ 12:00 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 15 km SSW of Sinabang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.323° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.3523° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW 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 2018-12-13 00:00:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-13 00:22:04 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 1.628 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us2000it33 Id of event.
Event Code 2000it33 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000it33, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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