Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Saumlaki in Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 150 km W of Saumlaki, Indonesia (93 miles). Exact location, longitude 129.9739° East, latitude -7.7127° South, depth = 33.38 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Saumlaki in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.38 km (21 miles). Id of earthquake: us10007tiy. Event ids that are associated: us10007tiy. Global time and date of event 16/01/17 / 2017-01-16 15:06:39 / January 16, 2017 @ 3:06 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:06:39 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter).

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 thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 150 km W of Saumlaki, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.9739° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.7127° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	150km W of Saumlaki, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-16 15:06:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-16 15:25:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	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	1.339	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us10007tiy	Id of event.
Event Code	10007tiy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007tiy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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