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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Palu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.6579S, 119.8785WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Palu in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has been issued near Palu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 23:46:39 / October 1, 2018 @ 11:46 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 119.8785° East, -0.6579° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:46:39 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000h5eb. Event ids that are associated: us1000h5eb.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palu. Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Palu (c. 282 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty 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. 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: 25 km N of Palu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.8785° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.6579° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km N of Palu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-01 23:46:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-02 00:00:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 1.975 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us1000h5eb Id of event.
Event Code 1000h5eb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h5eb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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