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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Muara Siberut in Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.0565S, 99.9154WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 93 km ESE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia (58 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 99.9154 East, latitude -2.0565 South, depth = 32.13 km. Id of earthquake: us1000j8pe. Event ids that are associated: us1000j8pe. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:18:53 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.13 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Muara Siberut in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/19 / 2019-02-28 14:18:53 / February 28, 2019 @ 2:18 pm.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 93 km ESE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 99.9154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.0565° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km ESE of Muara Siberut, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-28 14:18:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-28 14:35:52 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 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 2.62 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us1000j8pe Id of event.
Event Code 1000j8pe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000j8pe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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