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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Kangin in Indonesia


Earthquake location -10.9876S, 115.1997WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 238 km S of Kangin, Indonesia (148 miles) on Sunday. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:48:43 / 2:48 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/03/20 / 2020-03-22 06:48:43 / March 22, 2020 @ 6:48 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kangin in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70008dyh. Event ids that are associated: us70008dyh. Exact location of event, longitude 115.1997 East, latitude -10.9876 South, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 238 km S of Kangin, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 115.1997° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -10.9876° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 238km S of Kangin, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-22 06:48:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-22 07:06:37 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 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 2.706 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us70008dyh Id of event.
Event Code 70008dyh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008dyh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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