Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9, Tsunami warning alerts

Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 223 km W of Abepura, Indonesia


Earthquake location -2.7217S, 138.5714WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 223 km W of Abepura, Indonesia (139 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 138.5714 East, latitude -2.7217 South, depth = 9.26 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.26 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 18:46:28 / September 21, 2015 @ 6:46 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:46:28 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20003miv. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003miv.

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 six and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

How would you describe the shaking?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 223 km W of Abepura, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.5714° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.7217° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 223km W of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-21 18:46:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-21 19:51:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 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 6.318 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us20003miv Id of event.
Event Code 20003miv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003miv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply