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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Jatiroto in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.1392S, 110.8466WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 142 km SSW of Jatiroto, Indonesia (88 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/06/20 / 2020-06-21 19:33:05 / June 21, 2020 @ 7:33 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000ag1n. Event ids that are associated: us6000ag1n. Exact location of event, longitude 110.8466 East, latitude -9.1392 South, depth = 76.77 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 76.77 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:33:05 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 142 km SSW of Jatiroto, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 110.8466° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.1392° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142 km SSW of Jatiroto, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-21 19:33:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-21 19:49:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 0 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 1.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us6000ag1n Id of event.
Event Code 6000ag1n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ag1n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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