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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Reuleuet in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.7512S, 96.2239WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Reuleuet in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 16:52:47 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Reuleuet in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/18 / 2018-02-08 09:52:47 / February 8, 2018 @ 9:52 am. Unique identifier: us2000cyrm. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cyrm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.2239 East, latitude 4.7512 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Reuleuet (c. 40 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Meulaboh (c. 35 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bireun (c. 25 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sigli (c. 17 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sigli, Bireun, Meulaboh (min 5000 pop). 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. 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 one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km S of Reuleuet, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 96.2239° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.7512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km S of Reuleuet, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-08 09:52:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-08 10:11:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.862 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cyrm Id of event.
Event Code 2000cyrm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cyrm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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