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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Sumberpucung in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.0435S, 112.324WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Sumberpucung in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us7000ai11. Event ids that are associated: us7000ai11. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 93.09 km (58 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 112.324 East, latitude -9.0435 South, depth = 93.09 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/07/20 / 2020-07-04 19:09:22 / July 4, 2020 @ 7:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:09:22 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blitar, Kepanjen, Dampit (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from Blitar (c. 132 400 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Kepanjen (c. 51 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Sumberpucung (c. 35 300 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Dampit (c. 23 100 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Gongdanglegi Kulon (c. 22 500 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 99 km S of Sumberpucung, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 112.324° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.0435° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99 km S of Sumberpucung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-04 19:09:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-04 19:29:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 432 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 1.894 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us7000ai11 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ai11 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ai11, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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