Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Biha in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 75 km S of Biha, Indonesia (47 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 104.1228° East, -6.0062° South, depth 75.04 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 75.04 km (47 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006by3. Id of event: us10006by3. A tsunami warning has been issued near Biha in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:02:42 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/16 / 2016-08-07 14:02:42 / August 7, 2016 @ 2:02 pm.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	104.1228° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.0062° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	75.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	75km S of Biha, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-07 14:02:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-07 14:20:37	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	2.006	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us10006by3	Id of event.
Event Code	10006by3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006by3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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