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Strong earthquake 6 mag, 165 km W of Gorontalo, Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.501S, 121.5769WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 165 km W of Gorontalo, Indonesia (103 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 108.386 km (67 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000pwvy. Event ids that are associated: us7000pwvy. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:51:45 / 12:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 108.386 km, 121.5769° East, 0.501° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/25 / 2025-05-03 12:51:45 / May 3, 2025 @ 12:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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. 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: 165 km W of Gorontalo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5769° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.501° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.386 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165 km W of Gorontalo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-03 12:51:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-03 13:10:22 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 554 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 135 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us7000pwvy Id of event.
Event Code 7000pwvy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pwvy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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