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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Sinabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.9485S, 96.7623WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600069q2. Id of event: us600069q2. Exact location of event, depth 31.79 km, 96.7623° East, 1.9485° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.79 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/11/19 / 2019-11-09 14:17:00 / November 9, 2019 @ 2:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:17:00 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sinabang. 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 72 km SE of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.7623° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.9485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km 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 2019-11-09 14:17:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-09 14:50:15 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 340 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 1.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us600069q2 Id of event.
Event Code 600069q2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600069q2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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