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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Taliwang in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.0417S, 116.8871WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Taliwang in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 116.8871 East, latitude -9.0417 South, depth = 14.158 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:15:37 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/06/24 / 2024-06-06 13:15:37 / June 6, 2024 @ 1:15 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mqpy. Id of event: us7000mqpy. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.158 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mataram, Sumbawa Besar, Praya. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Mataram (c. 318 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Praya (c. 35 200 pop).

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. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km S of Taliwang, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 116.8871° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.0417° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.158 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km S of Taliwang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-06 13:15:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-06 13:42:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 105 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.904 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us7000mqpy Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqpy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mqpy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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