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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Nias region, Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.9674S, 96.7377WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Nias region, Indonesia kilometers (0 miles) from Nias region, Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.7377 East, latitude 1.9674 North, depth = 21.58 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:42:08 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100068w2. Ids that are associated to the event: us100068w2. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 22:42:08 / July 30, 2016 @ 10:42 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.58 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sinabang. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Sinabang (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Nias region, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.7377° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.9674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Nias region, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-30 22:42:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-30 23:00:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0 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 1.065 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us100068w2 Id of event.
Event Code 100068w2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100068w2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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