Quakedle
Puzzle #69 was 35 km NNE of Ruteng, Indonesia.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M5.5 — moderate class
- Magnitude type
- mb — body-wave magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- Indonesia and the Sunda arc
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- No DYFI count reported
- PAGER alert
- green PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Australian Plate · Eurasian Plate · Philippine Sea Plate
- Tectonic context
- Subduction along the Sunda arc and interactions among several smaller blocks make Indonesia one of Earth’s most seismically active regions.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M5.5. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Moderate (M5.0–5.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “35 km NNE of Ruteng, Indonesia”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Indonesia and the Sunda arc
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- The event uses magnitude type “mb”. What does that code mean?
- mb — body-wave magnitude