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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Manokwari in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -1.4925S, 134.0265WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Manokwari in Indonesia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.04 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 20:54:45 / 8:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 11:54:45 / August 26, 2015 @ 11:54 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003nkq. Unique identifier: us20003nkq. Exact location, longitude 134.0265° East, latitude -1.4925° South, depth = 35.04 km.

The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Manokwari (c. 53 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manokwari. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 69 km S of Manokwari, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 134.0265° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -1.4925° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km S 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 2015-08-26 11:54:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 07:09:35 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 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 188 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 2.272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us20003nkq Id of event.
Event Code 20003nkq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nkq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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