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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Reuleuet in Indonesia


Earthquake location 5.3726S, 96.3684WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Reuleuet in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 96.3684° East, latitude 5.3726° North, depth = 28.36 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.36 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 00:36:49 / December 17, 2016 @ 12:36 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:36:49 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007nuu. Event ids that are associated: us10007nuu.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lhokseumawe, Sigli, Bireun (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Lhokseumawe (c. 89 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 19 km NNE of Reuleuet, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.3684° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.3726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE 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 2016-12-17 00:36:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-31 04:53:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 0.593 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us10007nuu Id of event.
Event Code 10007nuu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007nuu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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