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Strong earthquake 6 mag, 160 km WSW of Kuripan, Indonesia


Earthquake location -5.7329S, 102.4894WA earthquake magnitude 6 (mg/mb) has striked on Monday, 160 kilometers (99 miles) from Kuripan in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 16:05:31 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 20/04/15 / 2015-04-20 09:05:31 / April 20, 2015 @ 9:05 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kuripan in Indonesia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 102.4894 East, latitude -5.7329 South, depth 10 km, unique identifier, us200027rc.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 102.4894° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -5.7329° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160km WSW of Kuripan, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-20 09:05:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-20 09:31:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.46 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 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.44 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200027rc Id of event.
Event Code 200027rc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200027rc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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