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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Sukadami in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.5217S, 106.9927WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Sukadami in Indonesia. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:34:19 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84.7 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sukadami in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20008iff. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008iff. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/02/17 / 2017-02-08 08:34:19 / February 8, 2017 @ 8:34 am. Exact location of event, depth 84.7 km, 106.9927° East, -7.5217° South.

The epicenter was 97 km (61 miles) from Bandung (c. 1 699 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Cimahi (c. 493 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Banjaran (c. 165 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Soreang (c. 150 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Paseh (c. 126 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Padalarang (c. 124 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bandung, Paseh, Cimahi.

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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km SSW of Sukadami, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.9927° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.5217° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Sukadami, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-08 08:34:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-08 08:51:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 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 3.452 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us20008iff Id of event.
Event Code 20008iff An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008iff, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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