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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 11 km WNW of Cicurug, Indonesia


Earthquake location -6.7481S, 106.685WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Cicurug in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us60008d3j. Event ids that are associated: us60008d3j. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/03/20 / 2020-03-10 10:18:07 / March 10, 2020 @ 10:18 am. Exact location of earthquake, 106.685° East, -6.7481° South, depth 25.62 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Cicurug in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:18:07 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.62 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Jakarta (c. 8 540 100 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Bandung (c. 1 699 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bekasi (c. 1 520 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tangerang (c. 1 372 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from South Tangerang (c. 1 303 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Depok (c. 1 198 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Bogor (c. 800 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pameungpeuk, Banjaran, Bandung (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km WNW of Cicurug, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.685° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.7481° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WNW of Cicurug, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-10 10:18:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-10 10:40:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 417 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 1.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us60008d3j Id of event.
Event Code 60008d3j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008d3j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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