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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Biha in Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.3812S, 103.6143WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 125 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia (78 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us70005c9s. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005c9s. A tsunami warning has been issued near Biha in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/09/19 / 2019-09-05 11:56:19 / September 5, 2019 @ 11:56 am. The temblor was detected at 18:56:19 / 6:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 103.6143° East, -6.3812° South, depth 35 km.

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

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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 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: 125 km SSW of Biha, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.6143° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.3812° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125km SSW of Biha, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-05 11:56:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-05 12:12:31 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 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 2.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us70005c9s Id of event.
Event Code 70005c9s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005c9s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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