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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sinabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.7433S, 95.8035WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 95.8035 East, latitude 2.7433 North, depth = 28.29 km. Global time and date of event 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 15:08:56 / April 21, 2020 @ 3:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.29 km (18 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:08:56 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60009dbr. Ids that are associated to the event: us60009dbr. 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 Sinabang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 70 km WNW of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.8035° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.7433° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km WNW 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 2020-04-21 15:08:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-27 19:09:25 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 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 2.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us60009dbr Id of event.
Event Code 60009dbr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009dbr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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