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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag strikes near Gorontalo in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.1355S, 123.1307WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia. Id of earthquake: us6000rlim. Event ids that are associated: us6000rlim. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.1307 East, latitude -0.1355 South, depth = 106.998 km. Global time and date of event 04/11/25 / 2025-11-04 23:32:23 / November 4, 2025 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:32:23 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 106.998 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Luwuk (c. 47 800 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 Luwuk, Gorontalo.

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. 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 thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 74 km S of Gorontalo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.1307° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.1355° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.998 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 km S 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 2025-11-04 23:32:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-04 23:44:48 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 536 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 2.655 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us6000rlim Id of event.
Event Code 6000rlim An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rlim, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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