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Strong earthquake: M6.6 quake has struck near Batang in Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.6368S, 110.6783WA earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Batang in Indonesia. Exact location, longitude 110.6783° East, latitude -5.6368° South, depth = 528.66 km. Event id: us7000aj3w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000aj3w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:54:46 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/20 / 2020-07-06 22:54:46 / July 6, 2020 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 528.66 km (328 miles).

Event epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) from Pati (c. 122 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Batang (c. 115 500 pop), 131 km (81 miles) from Kudus (c. 92 200 pop), 118 km (73 miles) from Pecangaan (c. 61 000 pop), 127 km (79 miles) from Baekrajan (c. 57 900 pop), 123 km (77 miles) from Gebog (c. 43 800 pop), 131 km (81 miles) from Juwana (c. 40 200 pop), 133 km (83 miles) from Jekulo (c. 37 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Mlonggo (c. 33 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jekulo, Kudus, Juwana. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 93 km N of Batang, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 110.6783° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.6368° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 528.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93 km N of Batang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-06 22:54:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-06 23:09:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 670 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 1.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 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 us7000aj3w Id of event.
Event Code 7000aj3w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aj3w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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