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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near Kemeduran in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.141S, 113.0028WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 98 kilometers (61 miles) from Kemeduran in Indonesia. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:59:24 / 7:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 588.64 km (366 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 113.0028 East, latitude -6.141 South, depth = 588.64 km. Event id: us2000as7r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000as7r. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/17 / 2017-09-20 23:59:24 / September 20, 2017 @ 11:59 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kemeduran in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Bangkalan (c. 62 200 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Paciran (c. 27 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paciran, Bangkalan (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 98 km NNE of Kemeduran, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 113.0028° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.141° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 588.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km NNE of Kemeduran, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-20 23:59:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-21 00:25:42 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 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 1.93 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 500 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 2.579 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 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000as7r Id of event.
Event Code 2000as7r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000as7r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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