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


Earthquake location 1.602S, 126.9554WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Kota Ternate in Indonesia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/16 / 2016-01-21 08:16:51 / January 21, 2016 @ 8:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004g06. Event ids that are associated: us10004g06. The temblor was picked up at 16:16:51 / 4:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 109.68 km (68 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 126.9554° East, 1.602° North, depth 109.68 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Ternate (c. 101 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ternate (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 101 km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9554° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.602° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km NNW 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 2016-01-21 08:16:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-21 08:33:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 0.921 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us10004g06 Id of event.
Event Code 10004g06 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004g06, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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