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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 200 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.0525S, 129.7418WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 200 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia (124 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:57:39 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 14:57:39 / May 6, 2018 @ 2:57 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Saumlaki in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120.42 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dzcy. Id of event: us1000dzcy. Exact location of event, longitude 129.7418 East, latitude -7.0525 South, depth = 120.42 km.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 200 km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.7418° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.0525° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 200km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-06 14:57:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 15:15:15 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 1.799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us1000dzcy Id of event.
Event Code 1000dzcy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dzcy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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