Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Sabang in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 125 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia (78 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:54:42 / 5:54 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003vqi. Event ids that are associated: us10003vqi. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.16 km (20 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 11:54:42 / November 8, 2015 @ 11:54 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.6344 East, latitude 6.7936 North, depth = 32.16 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 125 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	94.6344° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.7936° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	125km NW of Sabang, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-08 11:54:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-08 12:12:28	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	400	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	2.776	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us10003vqi	Id of event.
Event Code	10003vqi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003vqi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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