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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Meulaboh in Indonesia

Posted by admin on May 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.4497S, 95.3719WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Meulaboh in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000drba. Event ids that are associated: us1000drba. Exact location, longitude 95.3719° East, latitude 4.4497° North, depth = 63.44 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.44 km (39 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/04/18 / 2018-04-18 12:27:42 / April 18, 2018 @ 12:27 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:27:42 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Meulaboh (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km WNW of Meulaboh, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.3719° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.4497° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km WNW 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 2018-04-18 12:27:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 13:08:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 271 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 1.75 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us1000drba Id of event.
Event Code 1000drba An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000drba, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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