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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 178 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.9647S, 96.9384WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 178 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia (111 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/16 / 2016-08-12 01:01:32 / August 12, 2016 @ 1:01 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:01:32 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.34 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006d5c. Unique identifier: us10006d5c. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.9384 East, latitude 0.9647 North, depth = 35.34 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 178 km SSE of Sinabang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.9384° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.9647° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178km SSE 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 2016-08-12 01:01:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-12 02:12:35 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 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 0.72 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us10006d5c Id of event.
Event Code 10006d5c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006d5c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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