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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Meulaboh in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.4461S, 96.5307WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Meulaboh in Indonesia on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 16:22:50 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/10/17 / 2017-10-11 09:22:50 / October 11, 2017 @ 9:22 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000aq3q. Unique identifier: us1000aq3q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 96.5307 East, latitude 4.4461 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Reuleuet, Bireun, Meulaboh (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop).

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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 56 km NE of Meulaboh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.5307° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.4461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km NE of Meulaboh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-11 09:22:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-11 09:38:58 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 0.881 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us1000aq3q Id of event.
Event Code 1000aq3q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aq3q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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