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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Sioah in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -6.214S, 106.1142WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Sioah in Indonesia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 144.54 km (90 miles). Event id: us2000aufz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aufz. Exact location of earthquake, 106.1142° East, -6.214° South, depth 144.54 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/09/17 / 2017-09-25 18:10:41 / September 25, 2017 @ 6:10 pm. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:10:41 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sioah 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). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Jakarta (c. 8 540 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Bekasi (c. 1 520 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Tangerang (c. 1 372 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from South Tangerang (c. 1 303 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bogor (c. 800 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ciputat (c. 207 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pelabuhanratu, Cicurug, Bekasi.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 0 km SSE of Sioah, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.1142° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.214° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 144.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km SSE of Sioah, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-25 18:10:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-25 18:26:17 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 400 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 3.579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us2000aufz Id of event.
Event Code 2000aufz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aufz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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