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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Kuripan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.2552S, 102.735WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 116 km WSW of Kuripan, Indonesia (72 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kuripan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/17 / 2017-01-12 13:29:08 / January 12, 2017 @ 1:29 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:29:08 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007sv2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007sv2. Exact location of event, longitude 102.735 East, latitude -5.2552 South, depth = 38.19 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.19 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 116 km WSW of Kuripan, 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 102.735° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.2552° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116km WSW of Kuripan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-12 13:29:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-12 13:42:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.915 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us10007sv2 Id of event.
Event Code 10007sv2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007sv2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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