Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near southeast Indian Ridge

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes southeast Indian Ridge (0 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 100.1089 East, latitude -47.2531 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us7000ddw9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ddw9. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:58:29 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/21 / 2021-02-26 11:58:29 / February 26, 2021 @ 11:58 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: southeast Indian Ridge. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	100.1089° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-47.2531° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	southeast Indian Ridge	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-26 11:58:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-26 12:17:32	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	518	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	27.042	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us7000ddw9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ddw9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ddw9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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