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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Tual in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -4.7584S, 132.4402WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Tual in Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.58 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 19:38:36 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tual in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000d4p2. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d4p2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 132.4402 East, latitude -4.7584 South, depth = 28.58 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 10:38:36 / February 19, 2018 @ 10:38 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tual. Epicenter of the event was 103 km (64 miles) from Tual (c. 39 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days two 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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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: 106 km NNW of Tual, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.4402° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.7584° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km NNW of Tual, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-19 10:38:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-19 10:59:03 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 432 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 1.837 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us2000d4p2 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d4p2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d4p2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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