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Strong earthquake 6.2 mag, 73 km NNE of Pendok, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.0562S, 111.863WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Pendok in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us60005kta. Unique identifier: us60005kta. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 611.76 km (380 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 111.863° East, latitude -6.0562° South, depth = 611.76 km. The temblor was reported at 14:06:33 / 2:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/19 / 2019-09-19 07:06:33 / September 19, 2019 @ 7:06 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Pendok in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cepu, Babat, Bojonegoro. Earthquake epicenter was 120 km (74 miles) from Pati (c. 122 800 pop), 122 km (76 miles) from Bojonegoro (c. 86 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Tuban (c. 76 200 pop), 125 km (78 miles) from Cepu (c. 55 100 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Blora (c. 51 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Rembangan (c. 44 000 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Juwana (c. 40 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Lasem (c. 28 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 73 km NNE of Pendok, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 111.863° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0562° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 611.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km NNE of Pendok, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-19 07:06:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-19 07:29:23 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 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 1.534 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 592 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 1.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 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 us60005kta Id of event.
Event Code 60005kta An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005kta, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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