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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 2.0806S, 126.7096WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 149 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (93 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20003fyy. Event ids that are associated: us20003fyy. Exact location, longitude 126.7096° East, latitude 2.0806° North, depth = 43.65 km. The temblor was detected at 21:23:59 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.65 km (27 miles). Global time and date of event 03/09/15 / 2015-09-03 13:23:59 / September 3, 2015 @ 1:23 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 149 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7096° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.0806° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 149km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-03 13:23:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-03 13:43:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 3.4 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 1.456 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us20003fyy Id of event.
Event Code 20003fyy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fyy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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