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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Banda Aceh in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.6734S, 94.4328WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 138 km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia (86 miles) on Tuesday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:54:19 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 94.4328° East, 4.6734° North, depth 34.24 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us700048gp. Unique identifier: us700048gp. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.24 km (21 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/19 / 2019-07-01 23:54:19 / July 1, 2019 @ 11:54 pm.

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 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 138 km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.4328° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.6734° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-01 23:54:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-02 00:12:09 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 298 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 2.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us700048gp Id of event.
Event Code 700048gp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700048gp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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