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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Palu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.0023S, 119.7561WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Palu in Indonesia on Friday. The temblor was reported at 18:14:20 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h3p8. Unique identifier: us1000h3p8. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 119.7561° East, 0.0023° North. A tsunami warning has been issued near Palu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 10:14:20 / September 28, 2018 @ 10:14 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 100 km (62 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 99 km N of Palu, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.7561° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.0023° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km N of Palu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-28 10:14:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-28 10:36:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 6.09 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 1.504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us1000h3p8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000h3p8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h3p8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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