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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Sabang in Indonesia


Earthquake location 7.0297S, 94.7753WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 139 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia (86 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 18:30:17 / November 14, 2019 @ 6:30 pm. The temblor was detected at 00:30:17 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 94.7753° East, 7.0297° North, depth 126.08 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60006bmd. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006bmd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126.08 km (78 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 139 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7753° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.0297° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 139km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-14 18:30:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-14 19:08:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 0 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 385 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 2.804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us60006bmd Id of event.
Event Code 60006bmd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006bmd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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