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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Flying Fish Cove in Christmas Island


Earthquake location -9.5253S, 107.0091WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 176 km NE of Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island (109 miles) on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100068ba. Id of event: us100068ba. The temblor was reported at 16:07:10 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 107.0091° East, -9.5253° South, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 09:07:10 / July 29, 2016 @ 9:07 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Flying Fish Cove in Christmas Island (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 176 km NE of Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island. 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 107.0091° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.5253° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176km NE of Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-29 09:07:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-29 09:27:14 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 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 1.639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us100068ba Id of event.
Event Code 100068ba An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100068ba, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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