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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Pelabuhanratu in Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.4116S, 106.1051WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Pelabuhanratu in Indonesia on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/11/20 / 2020-11-04 22:21:50 / November 4, 2020 @ 10:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000cajk. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cajk. The temblor was picked up at 22:21:50 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.55 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 47.55 km, 106.1051° East, -7.4116° South.

Epicenter of the event was 102 km (64 miles) from Cicurug (c. 89 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cicurug, Pelabuhanratu.

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 twenty-two 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 68 km SW of Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.1051° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.4116° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km SW of Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-04 22:21:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-04 22:37:15 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 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 1.532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us7000cajk Id of event.
Event Code 7000cajk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cajk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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