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Strong earthquake 6.8 mag, 102 km SSW of Luwuk, Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.8518S, 122.5527WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Luwuk in Indonesia. Unique identifier: us700034xq. Ids that are associated to the event: us700034xq. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.48 km (11 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:40:49 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 11:40:49 / April 12, 2019 @ 11:40 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Luwuk in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 17.48 km, 122.5527° East, -1.8518° South.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luwuk. Epicenter of the event was 103 km (64 miles) from Luwuk (c. 47 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 102 km SSW of Luwuk, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.5527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.8518° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km SSW of Luwuk, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-12 11:40:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-12 12:01:54 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 6.462 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 711 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 3.434 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us700034xq Id of event.
Event Code 700034xq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700034xq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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