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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Sabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 6.3836S, 94.3554WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 119 km WNW of Sabang, Indonesia (74 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.3554 East, latitude 6.3836 North, depth = 70.26 km. Global time and date of event 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 00:16:58 / June 13, 2016 @ 12:16 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 06:16:58 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 70.26 km (44 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200065hs. Id of event: us200065hs.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 119 km WNW of Sabang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.3554° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.3836° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km WNW 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 2016-06-13 00:16:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-27 03:33:52 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 271 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 2.822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us200065hs Id of event.
Event Code 200065hs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065hs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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