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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Gorontalo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.2108S, 123.7043WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 137.073 km, 123.7043° East, 0.2108° North. Unique identifier: us6000n07e. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n07e. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:49:14 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 137.073 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/05/24 / 2024-05-22 05:49:14 / May 22, 2024 @ 5:49 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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. 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: 80 km ESE of Gorontalo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.7043° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.2108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.073 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km ESE of Gorontalo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-22 05:49:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-22 06:19:01 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 4.074 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 119 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 16 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 us6000n07e Id of event.
Event Code 6000n07e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n07e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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