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Strong earthquake, 6.4 mag has occurred near Sabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 6.8385S, 94.7243WA earthquake with magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 123 kilometers (76 miles) from Sabang in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.7243 East, latitude 6.8385 North, depth = 7.65 km. The temblor was detected at 22:47:01 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003vry. Unique identifier: us10003vry. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.65 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 16:47:01 / November 8, 2015 @ 4:47 pm.

The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) from Sabang (c. 24 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sabang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

Questions or comments?

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: 123 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7243° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km NNW 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 16:47:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-08 17:14:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.27 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 631 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 2.728 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003vry Id of event.
Event Code 10003vry An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vry, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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