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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Sinabang in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.5723S, 95.9909WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Sinabang in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 05:19:57 / 5:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 95.9909 East, latitude 2.5723 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000ruzu. Event ids that are associated: us6000ruzu. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/11/25 / 2025-11-27 05:19:57 / November 27, 2025 @ 5:19 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang. Epicenter of the event was 44 km (28 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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

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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: 44 km WNW of Sinabang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.9909° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.5723° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km WNW 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 2025-11-27 05:19:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-17 11:12:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.806 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 us6000ruzu Id of event.
Event Code 6000ruzu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ruzu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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