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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Kuripan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.8925S, 102.9505WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Kuripan in Indonesia on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 102.9505° East, latitude -4.8925° South, depth = 56.17 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:54:33 / 1:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.17 km (35 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/18 / 2018-09-16 06:54:33 / September 16, 2018 @ 6:54 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hfdd. Id of event: us2000hfdd. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kuripan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pageralam. Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 91 km W of Kuripan, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.9505° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.8925° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km W 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 2018-09-16 06:54:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-16 07:12:24 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 385 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 2.636 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us2000hfdd Id of event.
Event Code 2000hfdd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hfdd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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