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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Mamasa in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.9266S, 119.3907WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Mamasa in Indonesia on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 17:42:28 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Mamasa in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/11/18 / 2018-11-07 09:42:28 / November 7, 2018 @ 9:42 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.43 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.3907 East, latitude -2.9266 South, depth = 26.43 km. Unique identifier: us2000i7x0. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000i7x0.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palopo, Majene, Mamuju. Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Majene (c. 37 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NE of Mamasa, 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 119.3907° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.9266° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NE of Mamasa, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-07 09:42:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-07 09:57:22 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 2.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us2000i7x0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i7x0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i7x0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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