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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Palu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.7507S, 119.9483WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 10:50:25 / September 28, 2018 @ 10:50 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Palu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:50:25 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 119.9483° East, latitude -0.7507° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h3r6. Unique identifier: us1000h3r6.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop).

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

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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. 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: 17 km NNE of Palu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.9483° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.7507° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNE 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 10:50:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-28 11:07:58 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 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 2.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us1000h3r6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000h3r6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h3r6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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