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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Kute in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.5927S, 116.0154WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Kute in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002z14. Unique identifier: us10002z14. The temblor was picked up at 13:05:50 / 1:05 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/08/15 / 2015-08-06 05:05:50 / August 6, 2015 @ 5:05 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kute in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 60.35 km (37 miles). Exact location, longitude 116.0154° East, latitude -9.5927° South, depth = 60.35 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Praya. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 82 km SSW of Kute, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.0154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.5927° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km SSW of Kute, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-06 05:05:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-06 05:24:18 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 416 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 2.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us10002z14 Id of event.
Event Code 10002z14 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002z14, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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