Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 9 km WNW of Laiwui, Indonesia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 9 km WNW of Laiwui, Indonesia (6 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.72 km (14 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:08:33 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100085si. Event ids that are associated: us100085si. A tsunami warning has been issued near Laiwui in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 127.592 East, latitude -1.3117 South, depth = 22.72 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/17 / 2017-02-28 19:08:33 / February 28, 2017 @ 7:08 pm.

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

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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: 9 km WNW of Laiwui, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.592° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-1.3117° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km WNW of Laiwui, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-28 19:08:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-28 19:28:32	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	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	2.081	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	50	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	us100085si	Id of event.
Event Code	100085si	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100085si,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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