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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Panyaungan Timur in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.2981S, 106.0029WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Panyaungan Timur in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has been issued near Panyaungan Timur in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d6de. Unique identifier: us1000d6de. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 11:36:26 / March 19, 2018 @ 11:36 am. Exact location of event, longitude 106.0029 East, latitude -7.2981 South, depth = 45.69 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.69 km (28 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:36:26 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Cicurug (c. 89 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Labuan (c. 33 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Labuan, Cicurug, Pelabuhanratu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 46 km SSW of Panyaungan Timur, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.0029° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2981° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SSW of Panyaungan Timur, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-19 11:36:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-19 11:56:40 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 3.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us1000d6de Id of event.
Event Code 1000d6de An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d6de, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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