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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Naisano Dua in Indonesia


Earthquake location -9.0645S, 123.9038WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Naisano Dua in Indonesia on Friday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Naisano Dua in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20007fqh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007fqh. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.9038 East, latitude -9.0645 South, depth = 100.86 km. Global time and date of event 20/10/16 / 2016-10-20 20:50:13 / October 20, 2016 @ 8:50 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:50:13 / 4:50 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 100.86 km (63 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atambua, Soe, Kefamenanu. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 60 km NNE of Naisano Dua, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.9038° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.0645° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NNE of Naisano Dua, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-20 20:50:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-20 21:04:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 0.774 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us20007fqh Id of event.
Event Code 20007fqh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fqh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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