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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Kuripan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.5454S, 102.7305WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 127 km WSW of Kuripan, Indonesia (79 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/05/17 / 2017-05-30 08:28:19 / May 30, 2017 @ 8:28 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.25 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 102.7305 East, latitude -5.5454 South, depth = 54.25 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kuripan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008wd5. Unique identifier: us10008wd5. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:28:19 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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 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: 127 km WSW of Kuripan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.7305° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.5454° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127km 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 2017-05-30 08:28:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-30 08:44:47 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 432 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 1.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us10008wd5 Id of event.
Event Code 10008wd5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008wd5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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