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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Srandakan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.6659S, 109.6837WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Srandakan in Indonesia on Friday. The temblor was reported at 03:42:04 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hy1r. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hy1r. A tsunami warning has been issued near Srandakan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/18 / 2018-11-29 20:42:04 / November 29, 2018 @ 8:42 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 77.98 km (48 miles). Exact location of event, depth 77.98 km, 109.6837° East, -8.6659° South.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bambanglipuro, Srandakan. Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Bambanglipuro (c. 44 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Srandakan (c. 29 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six 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. 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: 101 km SW of Srandakan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 109.6837° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6659° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km SW of Srandakan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-29 20:42:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-29 21:15:04 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 1.118 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us1000hy1r Id of event.
Event Code 1000hy1r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hy1r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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