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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Banjar in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.2677S, 107.6196WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Banjar in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/24 / 2024-09-18 02:41:08 / September 18, 2024 @ 2:41 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 107.6196° East, -7.2677° South. 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: us6000nsu0. Unique identifier: us6000nsu0. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:41:08 / 2:41 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuningan, Cikampek, Jatiwangi. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Bandung (c. 1 699 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Cimahi (c. 493 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Tasikmalaya (c. 271 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Purwakarta (c. 215 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sumedang Utara (c. 206 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Lembang (c. 183 100 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km ESE of Banjar, 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 107.6196° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2677° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km ESE of Banjar, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-18 02:41:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-18 03:50:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 70 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us6000nsu0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nsu0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nsu0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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