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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Bilungala in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.0276S, 123.4233WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Bilungala in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bilungala in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 139.76 km (87 miles). The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:29:25 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100068b1. Id of event: us100068b1. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 08:29:25 / July 29, 2016 @ 8:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 139.76 km, 123.4233° East, 0.0276° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km SSE of Bilungala, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.4233° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.0276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Bilungala, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-29 08:29:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-29 08:47:28 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 449 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 1.246 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us100068b1 Id of event.
Event Code 100068b1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100068b1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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