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Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag was detected near Amahai in Indonesia

Posted by admin on December 9, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.1181S, 129.4776WA earthquake with magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) was reported 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Amahai in Indonesia on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.88 km (21 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:21:50 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.4776 East, latitude -4.1181 South, depth = 33.88 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004ft7. Id of event: us20004ft7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 10:21:50 / December 9, 2015 @ 10:21 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amahai (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop).

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. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 106 km SE of Amahai, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.4776° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.1181° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km SE 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 2015-12-09 10:21:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-09 10:45:44 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 5 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 732 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 3.011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 16 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20004ft7 Id of event.
Event Code 20004ft7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004ft7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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