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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Sinabang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on April 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.3493S, 96.2217WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.44 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20005k9s. Event ids that are associated: us20005k9s. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:44:41 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 96.2217° East, 2.3493° North, depth 33.44 km. Global time and date of event 20/04/16 / 2016-04-20 20:44:41 / April 20, 2016 @ 8:44 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang. Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 22 km SW of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.2217° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.3493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SW of Sinabang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-20 20:44:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-20 22:12:53 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 369 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 1.705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us20005k9s Id of event.
Event Code 20005k9s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005k9s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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