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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near Luwuk in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.8649S, 122.631WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Luwuk in Indonesia. Event id: us700038kq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700038kq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 11:45:36 / April 12, 2019 @ 11:45 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Luwuk in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 122.631° East, latitude -1.8649° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 19:45:36 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Luwuk (c. 47 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luwuk (min 5000 pop).

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 thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

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 S of Luwuk, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.631° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.8649° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km S 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 11:45:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-19 11:42:54 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 4.617 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 3.486 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us700038kq Id of event.
Event Code 700038kq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700038kq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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