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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Bitung in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.6873S, 125.3344WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia. The epicenter was at a depth of 118.17 km (73 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:47:04 / 2:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/03/16 / 2016-03-22 18:47:04 / March 22, 2016 @ 6:47 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 125.3344 East, latitude 1.6873 North, depth = 118.17 km. Unique identifier: us20005bu1. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005bu1.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (36 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomohon, Tondano, Manado (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 31 km NNE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3344° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.6873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km NNE of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-22 18:47:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-22 19:07:02 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 2.226 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us20005bu1 Id of event.
Event Code 20005bu1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005bu1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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