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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Pisangkemeng in Indonesia


Earthquake location -8.9289S, 117.8141WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pisangkemeng in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 01:01:56 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 117.8141 East, latitude -8.9289 South, depth = 58.46 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70004j4g. Unique identifier: us70004j4g. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 58.46 km (36 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/19 / 2019-07-12 17:01:56 / July 12, 2019 @ 5:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Pisangkemeng in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Sumbawa Besar (c. 52 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sumbawa Besar. 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. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 14 km SSE of Pisangkemeng, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 117.8141° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9289° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSE of Pisangkemeng, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-12 17:01:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-12 17:20:58 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 400 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 3.649 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us70004j4g Id of event.
Event Code 70004j4g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004j4g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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