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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Namlea in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.38S, 127.3187WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Namlea in Indonesia on Saturday. Unique identifier: us10006ddp. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006ddp. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/08/16 / 2016-08-12 18:38:42 / August 12, 2016 @ 6:38 pm. The temblor was reported at 03:38:42 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.3187 East, latitude -3.38 South, depth = 64.41 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.41 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Namlea in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ambon. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 102 km (63 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop).

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km ESE of Namlea, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3187° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.38° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km ESE of Namlea, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-12 18:38:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-12 18:55:27 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 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 416 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 4.124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us10006ddp Id of event.
Event Code 10006ddp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ddp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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