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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Sirukam in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.9647S, 100.7708WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Sirukam in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/18 / 2018-07-21 07:58:15 / July 21, 2018 @ 7:58 am. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:58:15 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sirukam in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000gaik. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gaik. Exact location of earthquake, 100.7708° East, -0.9647° South, depth 10 km.

The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Padang (c. 840 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Payakumbuh (c. 121 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Bukittinggi (c. 98 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Pariaman (c. 92 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Solok (c. 48 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Sijunjung (c. 27 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bukittinggi, Payakumbuh, Pariaman (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km S of Sirukam, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.7708° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.9647° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Sirukam, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-21 07:58:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-21 08:12:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 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 416 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 1.31 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us2000gaik Id of event.
Event Code 2000gaik An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gaik, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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