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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Hila in Indonesia


Earthquake location -3.8206S, 127.6642WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Hila in Indonesia on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Hila in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ayz4. Unique identifier: us1000ayz4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 11:34:44 / October 31, 2017 @ 11:34 am. The temblor was reported at 20:34:44 / 8:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 127.6642° East, -3.8206° South, depth 47.52 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.52 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ambon (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Ambon (c. 355 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 53 km WSW of Hila, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.6642° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -3.8206° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km WSW of Hila, 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 11:34:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-31 11:54:45 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 4.17 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 500 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 4.571 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us1000ayz4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ayz4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ayz4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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