Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Sibolga in Indonesia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Sibolga in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 121.07 km (75 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 98.9439° East, latitude 1.9096° North, depth = 121.07 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:03:55 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/01/17 / 2017-01-02 14:03:55 / January 2, 2017 @ 2:03 pm. Id of earthquake: us10007p8t. Event ids that are associated: us10007p8t.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Padangsidempuan (c. 100 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bandar (c. 31 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bandar, Padangsidempuan, Sibolga.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 ten 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: 26 km NE of Sibolga, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	98.9439° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	1.9096° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	121.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NE of Sibolga, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-02 14:03:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-02 17:52:13	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	312	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	0.779	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us10007p8t	Id of event.
Event Code	10007p8t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007p8t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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