Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Gorontalo in Indonesia

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia. Exact location of earthquake, 122.8871° East, -0.0998° South, depth 149.425 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/09/24 / 2024-09-23 19:51:03 / September 23, 2024 @ 7:51 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:51:03 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 149.425 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ntxc. Id of event: us6000ntxc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luwuk, Gorontalo. The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Luwuk (c. 47 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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: 73 km SSW of Gorontalo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.8871° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-0.0998° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	149.425 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73 km SSW 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	2024-09-23 19:51:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-23 20:09:36	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	4.017	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	554	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	109	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.943	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	22	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	us6000ntxc	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ntxc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ntxc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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