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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Melekeok Village in Palau

Posted by admin on November 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.3871S, 134.6532WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Melekeok Village in Palau. Exact location, longitude 134.6532° East, latitude 7.3871° North, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:19:15 / 6:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/11/17 / 2017-11-15 21:19:15 / November 15, 2017 @ 9:19 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000bp6i. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bp6i.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Angaur State, Kayangel, Kloulklubed. Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Koror (c. 14 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Koror Town (c. 12 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kloulklubed (c. 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ulimang (c. 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mengellang (c. 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ngchesar Hamlet (c. 300 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Melekeok Village (c. 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Palau (c. 20 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 12 km S of Melekeok Village, Palau.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 134.6532° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.3871° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S of Melekeok Village, Palau Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-15 21:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-15 21:31:53 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 0 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 9.008 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us2000bp6i Id of event.
Event Code 2000bp6i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bp6i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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