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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Kota Ternate in Indonesia

Posted by admin on November 25, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.4247S, 126.3699WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 131 km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (81 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100041ay. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041ay. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.3699 East, latitude 1.4247 North, depth = 39.34 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.34 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 18:57:42 / November 25, 2015 @ 6:57 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:57:42 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty 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.

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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. 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: 131 km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3699° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.4247° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km WNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-25 18:57:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 19:16:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 500 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 1.189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us100041ay Id of event.
Event Code 100041ay An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041ay, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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