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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Amahai in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.8342S, 129.1646WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/09/15 / 2015-09-22 14:45:49 / September 22, 2015 @ 2:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 115.44 km, 129.1646° East, -3.8342° South. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amahai in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 115.44 km (72 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003mw7. Id of event: us20003mw7. The temblor was reported at 23:45:49 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai. Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.1646° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.8342° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-22 14:45:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-22 15:07:36 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 3.21 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us20003mw7 Id of event.
Event Code 20003mw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003mw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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