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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sigli in Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.8923S, 95.8234WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Sigli in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 95.8234° East, latitude 4.8923° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us7000nzju. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nzju. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/12/24 / 2024-12-04 14:21:36 / December 4, 2024 @ 2:21 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:21:36 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Banda Aceh, Meulaboh, Reuleuet. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nine 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km SSW of Sigli, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.8234° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.8923° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km SSW of Sigli, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-04 14:21:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-02 02:21:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us7000nzju Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzju An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzju, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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