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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 199 km SSW of Sibolga, Indonesia

Posted by admin on November 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.1989S, 97.852WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 199 km SSW of Sibolga, Indonesia (124 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/11/20 / 2020-11-03 01:51:03 / November 3, 2020 @ 1:51 am. Event id: us7000c9jm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c9jm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:51:03 / 1:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 18.85 km, 97.852° East, 0.1989° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.85 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 199 km SSW of Sibolga, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.852° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.1989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 199 km SSW of Sibolga, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-03 01:51:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-03 02:06:47 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 1.131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us7000c9jm Id of event.
Event Code 7000c9jm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c9jm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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