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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Langsa in Indonesia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Langsa in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 98.1944 East, latitude 4.3721 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:00:55 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000npai. Unique identifier: us7000npai. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 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 01/11/24 / 2024-11-01 03:00:55 / November 1, 2024 @ 3:00 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Binjai, Labuhan Deli, Belawan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Binjai (c. 228 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Belawan (c. 102 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Langsa (c. 54 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Labuhan Deli (c. 49 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Stabat (c. 26 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Pangkalan Brandan (c. 25 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tanjungtiram (c. 25 100 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km ESE of Langsa, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	98.1944° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.3721° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km ESE of Langsa, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-01 03:00:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-01 21:08:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	312	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.506	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us7000npai	Id of event.
Event Code	7000npai	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000npai,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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