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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on September 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.8973S, 128.7797WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 30/09/17 / 2017-09-30 10:30:02 / September 30, 2017 @ 10:30 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:30:02 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tobelo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 128.7797 East, latitude 1.8973 North, depth = 37.67 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ax5m. Id of event: us2000ax5m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.67 km (23 miles).

Event epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 87 km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.7797° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.8973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-30 10:30:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-30 10:49:42 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 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 1.801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000ax5m Id of event.
Event Code 2000ax5m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ax5m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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