Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Palue in Indonesia

A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 148 km NNE of Palue, Indonesia (92 miles). Unique identifier: us10007ev8. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007ev8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 522.17 km (324 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 123.396° East, latitude -7.3137° South, depth = 522.17 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:13:04 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 01:13:04 / December 5, 2016 @ 1:13 am.

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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 148 km NNE of Palue, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.396° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.3137° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	522.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	148km NNE of Palue, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-05 01:13:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-05 01:38:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.19	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	554	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	1.744	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	25	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	us10007ev8	Id of event.
Event Code	10007ev8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007ev8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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