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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Bontang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.3376S, 118.4614WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 171 km NE of Bontang, Indonesia (106 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 10.649 km, 118.4614° East, 1.3376° North. Id of earthquake: us7000ne1t. Event ids that are associated: us7000ne1t. The temblor was picked up at 13:08:09 / 1:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.649 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/09/24 / 2024-09-15 13:08:09 / September 15, 2024 @ 1:08 pm UTC/GMT.

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 occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 171 km NE of Bontang, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.4614° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.3376° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.649 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171 km NE of Bontang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-15 13:08:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-15 13:27:01 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 6.495 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 465 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us7000ne1t Id of event.
Event Code 7000ne1t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ne1t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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