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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 197 km SW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.4302S, 100.2519WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 197 km SW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia (122 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: us6000c9dx. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c9dx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.77 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:42:54 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 09:42:54 / October 19, 2020 @ 9:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.2519 East, latitude -3.4302 South, depth = 36.77 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 197 km SW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.2519° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.4302° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 197 km SW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-19 09:42:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-19 10:02:13 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 400 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 2.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us6000c9dx Id of event.
Event Code 6000c9dx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c9dx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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