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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 142 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia

Posted by admin on March 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.3515S, 126.0965WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 142 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia (88 miles) on Tuesday. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:18:11 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56.84 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.0965 East, latitude 2.3515 North, depth = 56.84 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20005d4l. Event ids that are associated: us20005d4l. Global time and date of event 29/03/16 / 2016-03-29 09:18:11 / March 29, 2016 @ 9:18 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. 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: 142 km NE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0965° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.3515° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km NE 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 2016-03-29 09:18:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-29 09:44:52 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 3.42 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 465 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 2.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005d4l Id of event.
Event Code 20005d4l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005d4l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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