Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Komodo in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Komodo in Indonesia on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/25 / 2025-01-07 17:52:22 / January 7, 2025 @ 5:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000pifl. Event ids that are associated: us6000pifl. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.3601 East, latitude -8.381 South, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:52:22 / 5:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bima, Labuhanbajo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Labuhanbajo (c. 188 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bima (c. 67 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 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 quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km NNW of Komodo, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.3601° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.381° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km NNW of Komodo, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-07 17:52:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-07 18:35:24	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.628	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us6000pifl	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pifl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pifl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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