Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Biha in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 237 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia (147 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us600053ml. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600053ml. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 102.9604° East, -7.1918° South. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:39:03 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Biha in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/19 / 2019-08-11 04:39:03 / August 11, 2019 @ 4:39 am.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 237 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	102.9604° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.1918° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	237km SSW of Biha, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-11 04:39:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-11 05:00:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	432	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	2.812	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us600053ml	Id of event.
Event Code	600053ml	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600053ml,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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