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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Sungaipenuh in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.9567S, 100.0549WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 176 km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia (109 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sungaipenuh in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:48:44 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006gf0. Id of event: us10006gf0. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.0549 East, latitude -2.9567 South, depth = 17.15 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.15 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 13:48:44 / August 24, 2016 @ 1:48 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 176 km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.0549° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9567° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-24 13:48:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 14:13:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.92 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 518 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 3.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us10006gf0 Id of event.
Event Code 10006gf0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006gf0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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