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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 45 km NNW of Kuripan, Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.651S, 103.6298WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kuripan in Indonesia. Event id: us10003z7z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003z7z. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:36:56 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114.12 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 103.6298° East, latitude -4.651° South, depth = 114.12 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kuripan in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/11/15 / 2015-11-18 10:36:56 / November 18, 2015 @ 10:36 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lahat, Baturaja, Tanjungagung (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Baturaja (c. 134 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Pageralam (c. 70 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Lahat (c. 65 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tanjungagung (c. 53 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 45 km NNW of Kuripan, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.6298° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.651° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NNW 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 2015-11-18 10:36:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-18 10:53:11 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.731 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 72 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 us10003z7z Id of event.
Event Code 10003z7z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003z7z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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