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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Sibolga in Indonesia

Posted by admin on June 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 0.962S, 97.3949WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 176 km WSW of Sibolga, Indonesia (109 miles) on Wednesday. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:42:05 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.75 km (21 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 97.3949 East, latitude 0.962 North, depth = 33.75 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/06/16 / 2016-06-22 02:42:05 / June 22, 2016 @ 2:42 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us200065wl. Event ids that are associated: us200065wl. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sibolga in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 176 km WSW of Sibolga, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 97.3949° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176km WSW of Sibolga, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-22 02:42:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-22 03:00:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 400 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 0.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us200065wl Id of event.
Event Code 200065wl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065wl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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