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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 53 km W of Kasiguncu, Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.504S, 120.1773WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Kasiguncu in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 15:40:11 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/09/18 / 2018-09-29 07:40:11 / September 29, 2018 @ 7:40 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kasiguncu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h46e. Unique identifier: us1000h46e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.1773 East, latitude -1.504 South, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu, Poso. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 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 sixteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 53 km W of Kasiguncu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.1773° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.504° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W of Kasiguncu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-29 07:40:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-29 07:56:46 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 2.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us1000h46e Id of event.
Event Code 1000h46e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h46e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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