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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 300 km SW of Angaur State, Palau

Posted by admin on August 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.7416S, 132.4888WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Angaur State in Palau. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 132.4888° East, latitude 4.7416° North, depth = 12.08 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/08/16 / 2016-08-06 04:19:13 / August 6, 2016 @ 4:19 am. Unique identifier: us10006bt2. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006bt2. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:19:13 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.08 km (8 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (44 miles) from Sonsorol Village (c. 0 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sonsorol Village. Close country/countries, Palau (c. 20 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 300 km SW of Angaur State, Palau. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.4888° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.7416° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 300km SW of Angaur State, Palau Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-06 04:19:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-06 04:38:54 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 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 432 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 6.458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us10006bt2 Id of event.
Event Code 10006bt2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006bt2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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