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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 111 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia


Earthquake location 6.7374S, 94.7722WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 111 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia (69 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:28:04 / 1:28 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003vwz. Event ids that are associated: us10003vwz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.2 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 07:28:04 / November 9, 2015 @ 7:28 am. Exact location, longitude 94.7722° East, latitude 6.7374° North, depth = 28.2 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 111 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7722° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7374° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km 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 2015-11-09 07:28:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-08 08:04:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 340 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 2.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us10003vwz Id of event.
Event Code 10003vwz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vwz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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