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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Onan Ganjang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.9036S, 97.8261WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Onan Ganjang in Indonesia on Monday. Event id: us1000jdk7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jdk7. A tsunami warning has been issued near Onan Ganjang in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/03/19 / 2019-03-11 13:26:24 / March 11, 2019 @ 1:26 pm. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:26:24 / 8:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 97.8261° East, 1.9036° North, depth 43.88 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.88 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 108 km (67 miles) from Sibolga (c. 79 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sibolga. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 93 km WSW of Onan Ganjang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.8261° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.9036° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km WSW of Onan Ganjang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-11 13:26:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-11 13:43:57 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 416 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 0.646 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000jdk7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jdk7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jdk7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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