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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Bunisari in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.1096S, 107.4208WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Bunisari in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/15 / 2015-10-10 09:03:59 / October 10, 2015 @ 9:03 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003mnt. Unique identifier: us10003mnt. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 107.4208° East, -8.1096° South. The temblor was detected at 16:03:59 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Bunisari in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Banjar (c. 37 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Banjar (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km SSW of Bunisari, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 107.4208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1096° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km SSW of Bunisari, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-10 09:03:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-10 09:24:22 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 416 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 2.932 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us10003mnt Id of event.
Event Code 10003mnt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003mnt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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