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Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag was detected near Sorong in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -0.629S, 131.2545WA earthquake magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Sorong in Indonesia. The temblor was picked up at 00:53:28 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sorong in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.06 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, depth 24.06 km, 131.2545° East, -0.629° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 15:53:28 / September 24, 2015 @ 3:53 pm. Event id: us20003nqr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt15267052, us20003nqr.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sorong (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Sorong (c. 125 500 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 28 km N of Sorong, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.2545° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.629° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km N of Sorong, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-24 15:53:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 16:20:26 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 6.84 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 670 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 ,pt,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 2.482 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003nqr Id of event.
Event Code 20003nqr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt15267052,us20003nqr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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