Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Modisi in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Modisi in Indonesia on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude 123.852 East, latitude 0.9265 North, depth = 271.971 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 271.971 km (169 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:28:13 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). 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: us6000my6q. Unique identifier: us6000my6q. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/24 / 2024-05-13 00:28:13 / May 13, 2024 @ 12:28 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo. Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km NW of Modisi, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.852° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.9265° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	271.971 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83 km NW of Modisi, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-13 00:28:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-14 12:48:15	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	416	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	92	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.234	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	us6000my6q	Id of event.
Event Code	6000my6q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000my6q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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