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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 75 km WSW of Binjai, Indonesia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Binjai in Indonesia on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 16:13:44 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 97.8274° East, latitude 3.4391° North, depth = 129.57 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/03/18 / 2018-03-02 09:13:44 / March 2, 2018 @ 9:13 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.57 km (81 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000dax2. Event ids that are associated: us2000dax2.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Labuhan Deli, Deli Tua, Medan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Medan (c. 1 751 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Binjai (c. 228 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sunggal (c. 157 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kabanjahe (c. 57 200 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Labuhan Deli (c. 49 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Deli Tua (c. 27 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Stabat (c. 26 900 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 75 km WSW of Binjai, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	97.8274° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.4391° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	129.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	75km WSW of Binjai, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-02 09:13:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-02 10:06:50	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	340	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	1.321	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us2000dax2	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dax2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dax2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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