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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Pendolo in Indonesia


Earthquake location -1.773S, 120.1864WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Pendolo in Indonesia on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 120.1864° East, -1.773° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/03/20 / 2020-03-28 15:43:17 / March 28, 2020 @ 3:43 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008hvb. Id of event: us70008hvb. A tsunami warning has been issued near Pendolo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:43:17 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Poso (c. 47 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu, Poso.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 64 km WNW of Pendolo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.1864° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.773° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km WNW of Pendolo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-28 15:43:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-28 15:58:34 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 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 518 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 2.684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us70008hvb Id of event.
Event Code 70008hvb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008hvb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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