USGS reports 7.4 earthquake 115km north of Bandung

August 9, 2007

Update 8:35am: This is a strange earthquake all right. It was felt from Jakarta all the way to Bali yet there has been no reported damage or injury so far. Lots of people got scared and ran out of their houses. The water level pool in our house in Bali dropped 30cms, but we do not know if it is directly related to the quake. But no one or any buildings seems to have been injured or damaged. Twilight Zone stuff.

clipped from earthquake.usgs.gov

Magnitude	7.4
Date-Time	Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 17:04:57 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 12:04:57 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	5.924�S, 107.741�E
Depth	282.1 km (175.3 miles)
Region	JAVA, INDONESIA
Distances	110 km (70 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia 115 km (70 miles) N of Bandung, Java, Indonesia 130 km (80 miles) NW of Cirebon, Java, Indonesia 150 km (90 miles) NE of Sukabumi, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 10 km (6.2 miles); depth +/- 19.6 km (12.2 miles)
Parameters	Nst= 40, Nph= 40, Dmin=553.8 km, Rmss=1.31 sec, Gp= 36�, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2007fubd

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

unspun

Indonesia

5 responses to “USGS reports 7.4 earthquake 115km north of Bandung”

Divi Augusti

August 9, 2007 at 1:12 pm

Bandunger here.

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Res Gestae

August 9, 2007 at 1:24 pm

Holy Friggin Earthquake!

Well, I’ll be damned…
According to the USGS website [1] [2]:
Magnitude: 7.5
Date-Time: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 at 17:04:58 (UTC) – Coordinated Universal Time
Thursday, August 09, 2007 at 12:04:58 AM local time at epicent…

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bayi

August 11, 2007 at 8:24 am

Was it scary, Unspun?

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unspun

August 11, 2007 at 8:31 am

Bayi: Not so much scary but unsettling. Was in bed reading and about to fall asleep when it happened. It seemed like the quake lasted a long time. First I wondered if I was imagining that the room was moving. Then when I saw the lights swaying I knew it was a quake. By then it seemed like a long time but it kept going. The inbuilt cupboards started giving little creaks. That’s when I decided to walk to the backyard, out of the building just to be safe. After that it stopped.

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Idiot_Malay

August 11, 2007 at 11:10 am

Almost 6000 medium to large (above 5.0 SR) earthquakes occured in Indonesia every year (ar almost 17 amoks every day) …..

So, Indonesians have to to invade to Australia to move there and let our existing lands as “paradise garden” for the world…

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