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

Posted by admin on April 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.0192S, 102.5793WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 246 km SW of Biha, Indonesia (153 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 102.5793 East, latitude -7.0192 South, depth = 32.78 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.78 km (20 miles). Unique identifier: us20005lcb. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005lcb. Global time and date of event 24/04/16 / 2016-04-24 04:32:28 / April 24, 2016 @ 4:32 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Biha in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:32:28 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 246 km SW of Biha, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.5793° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.0192° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 246km SW 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 2016-04-24 04:32:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-24 04:52:07 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 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 2.667 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us20005lcb Id of event.
Event Code 20005lcb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005lcb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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