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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 44 km NNW of Sinabang, Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.8639S, 96.247WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700062ih. Id of event: us700062ih. Exact location, longitude 96.247° East, latitude 2.8639° North, depth = 37.98 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.98 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 16:49:54 / 4:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/11/19 / 2019-11-03 09:49:54 / November 3, 2019 @ 9:49 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop).

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 eighteen 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km NNW of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.247° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.8639° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km NNW of Sinabang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-03 09:49:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-03 10:27:07 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 2.04 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us700062ih Id of event.
Event Code 700062ih An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700062ih, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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