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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Amahusu in Indonesia

Posted by admin on October 31, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -3.8934S, 128.1176WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Amahusu in Indonesia on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.44 km (17 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 128.1176 East, latitude -3.8934 South, depth = 27.44 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 16:47:48 / October 31, 2017 @ 4:47 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Amahusu in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000az4z. Event ids that are associated: us1000az4z. The temblor was detected at 01:47:48 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ambon (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 18 km S of Amahusu, 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 128.1176° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.8934° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km S of Amahusu, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-31 16:47:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-31 21:35:31 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 4.236 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 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 us1000az4z Id of event.
Event Code 1000az4z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000az4z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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