Moderate earthquake: M5 quake strikes near Manokwari in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (mg/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Manokwari in Indonesia. The temblor was reported at 00:08:06 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 36.7 km (23 miles). Global time of event 18/03/15 / 2015-03-18 15:08:06 / March 18, 2015 @ 3:08 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Manokwari in Indonesia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 134.4471 East, latitude -1.0567 South, depth 36.7 km, unique identifier, us10001nfv.

Close countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Manokwari (c. 53 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manokwari.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	134.4471° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.0567° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km ESE of Manokwari, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-03-18 15:08:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-03-18 16:01:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	1	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.872	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us10001nfv	Id of event.
Event Code	10001nfv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10001nfv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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