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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Biha in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.2954S, 103.7001WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 112 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia (70 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:47:09 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/11/15 / 2015-11-18 16:47:09 / November 18, 2015 @ 4:47 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.92 km (30 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003zcb. Unique identifier: us10003zcb. Exact location, longitude 103.7001° East, latitude -6.2954° South, depth = 48.92 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Biha in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 112 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.7001° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.2954° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km SSW of Biha, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-18 16:47:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-18 17:05:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 385 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 2.06 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us10003zcb Id of event.
Event Code 10003zcb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zcb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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