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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Kuripan in Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.8095S, 103.0508WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (mg/mb) was reported Sunday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Kuripan in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 03:57:23 / 3:57 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 57.18 km (36 miles). Global time of event 30/05/15 / 2015-05-30 20:57:23 / May 30, 2015 @ 8:57 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kuripan in Indonesia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 103.0508 East, latitude -4.8095 South, depth 57.18 km, unique identifier, us20002kqi. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us20002kqi,.

Close countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pageralam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.0508° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.8095° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WNW 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 2015-05-30 20:57:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-30 21:12:38 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 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 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 432 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 2.508 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us20002kqi Id of event.
Event Code 20002kqi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002kqi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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