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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Pali in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1852S, 118.3055WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Pali in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 118.3055 East, latitude -8.1852 South, depth = 19.15 km. Global time and date of event 31/07/15 / 2015-07-31 22:26:08 / July 31, 2015 @ 10:26 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10002x0l. Event ids that are associated: us10002x0l. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.15 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Pali in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:26:08 / 6:26 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (34 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sumbawa Besar, Bima (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km N of Pali, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.3055° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1852° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km N of Pali, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-31 22:26:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-31 22:44:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 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 1 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 400 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 3.462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us10002x0l Id of event.
Event Code 10002x0l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002x0l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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