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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Bali in Indonesia


Earthquake location -11.6429S, 114.5423WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, South of Bali, Indonesia (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:39:24 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/03/17 / 2017-03-16 18:39:24 / March 16, 2017 @ 6:39 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bali in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20008siq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008siq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 114.5423 East, latitude -11.6429 South, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 114.5423° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -11.6429° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South of Bali, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-16 18:39:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-16 18:52:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 3.176 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us20008siq Id of event.
Event Code 20008siq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008siq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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