Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Banda Aceh in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Banda Aceh in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000np1y. Id of event: us7000np1y. Exact location of event, longitude 95.3155 East, latitude 4.9268 North, depth = 105.476 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:35:53 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 105.476 km (66 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/10/24 / 2024-10-11 18:35:53 / October 11, 2024 @ 6:35 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sigli, Banda Aceh.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 68 km S of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.3155° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.9268° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	105.476 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68 km S of Banda Aceh, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-11 18:35:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-06 22:18:28	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	271	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.228	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us7000np1y	Id of event.
Event Code	7000np1y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000np1y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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