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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Pundong in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.8637S, 110.8021WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 112 kilometers (70 miles) from Pundong in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 110.8021 East, latitude -8.8637 South, depth = 98.25 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bky6. Unique identifier: us7000bky6. The temblor was reported at 08:26:59 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 98.25 km (61 miles). Global time and date of event 10/09/20 / 2020-09-10 08:26:59 / September 10, 2020 @ 8:26 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wonosari (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 102 km (64 miles) from Wonosari (c. 27 500 pop). Nearby 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 two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 112 km SSE of Pundong, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 110.8021° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.8637° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112 km SSE of Pundong, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-10 08:26:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-10 08:47:17 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 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 0.984 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bky6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bky6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bky6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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