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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.5196S, 128.5492WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia (0 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004sks. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004sks. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:17:48 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/16 / 2016-02-25 12:17:48 / February 25, 2016 @ 12:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 128.5492° East, -7.5196° South, depth 166.57 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 166.57 km (104 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.5492° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.5196° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 166.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-25 12:17:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-25 12:38:48 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 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 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 2.763 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us10004sks Id of event.
Event Code 10004sks An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004sks, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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