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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Bitung in Indonesia

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Bitung in Indonesia on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us1000c1fn. Event ids that are associated: us1000c1fn. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/18 / 2018-01-06 15:39:44 / January 6, 2018 @ 3:39 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:39:44 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 83.49 km (52 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 125.3788 East, latitude 0.9071 North, depth = 83.49 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manado, Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Tomohon. Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Manado (c. 451 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bitung (c. 137 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tondano (c. 33 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Tomohon (c. 27 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe) (c. 8 000 pop).

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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 63 km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.3788° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	0.9071° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63km SSE of Bitung, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-06 15:39:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-06 16:06:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	400	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	1.992	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us1000c1fn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000c1fn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000c1fn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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