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Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Sumbersari in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.0891S, 111.8863WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Sumbersari in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/19 / 2019-09-19 07:32:00 / September 19, 2019 @ 7:32 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005ku0. Id of event: us60005ku0. Exact location of earthquake, 111.8863° East, -6.0891° South, depth 591.18 km. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:32:00 / 2:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 591.18 km (367 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sumbersari in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cepu, Pati, Bojonegoro (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 120 km (74 miles) from Pati (c. 122 800 pop), 118 km (73 miles) from Bojonegoro (c. 86 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tuban (c. 76 200 pop), 122 km (76 miles) from Cepu (c. 55 100 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Blora (c. 51 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Rembangan (c. 44 000 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Juwana (c. 40 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lasem (c. 28 900 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year.

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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: 71 km NNE of Sumbersari, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 111.8863° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0891° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 591.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NNE of Sumbersari, 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 07:32:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-19 07:51:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 1.42 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 554 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 1.724 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us60005ku0 Id of event.
Event Code 60005ku0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005ku0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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