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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Reuleuet in Indonesia


Earthquake location 5.0402S, 96.2976WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Reuleuet in Indonesia on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003rwv. Unique identifier: us10003rwv. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/10/15 / 2015-10-21 00:30:39 / October 21, 2015 @ 12:30 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.54 km (33 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.2976 East, latitude 5.0402 North, depth = 53.54 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:30:39 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sigli, Bireun, Reuleuet. Event epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 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: 19 km S of Reuleuet, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.2976° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.0402° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km S of Reuleuet, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-21 00:30:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-18 01:03:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 298 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 0.673 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us10003rwv Id of event.
Event Code 10003rwv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003rwv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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