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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Nggongi in Indonesia


Earthquake location -10.4392S, 120.1283WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Nggongi in Indonesia on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h68e. Id of event: us1000h68e. Exact location of event, longitude 120.1283 East, latitude -10.4392 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Nggongi in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/10/18 / 2018-10-03 12:38:05 / October 3, 2018 @ 12:38 pm. The temblor was reported at 20:38:05 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waingapu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Waingapu (c. 48 800 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km SSW of Nggongi, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.1283° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.4392° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSW of Nggongi, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-03 12:38:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-03 12:54:50 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 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 2.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000h68e Id of event.
Event Code 1000h68e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h68e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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