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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 40 km SSE of Tegalrejo, Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.6434S, 113.1343WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Tegalrejo in Indonesia on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008nye. Id of event: us70008nye. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tegalrejo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.89 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 113.1343° East, latitude -8.6434° South, depth = 127.89 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 00:15:23 / April 5, 2020 @ 12:15 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:15:23 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kraksaan, Lawang, Probolinggo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Malang (c. 746 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Jember (c. 298 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Probolinggo (c. 181 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Lawang (c. 159 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Lumajang (c. 123 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Singosari (c. 57 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kepanjen (c. 51 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, 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 have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km SSE of Tegalrejo, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 113.1343° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.6434° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SSE of Tegalrejo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-05 00:15:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-05 00:32:05 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 385 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 1.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us70008nye Id of event.
Event Code 70008nye An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008nye, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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