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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Flores Sea


Earthquake location -7.1547S, 122.752WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Flores Sea (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 17:07:23 / July 28, 2018 @ 5:07 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 578.53 km (359 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000gg76. Event ids that are associated: us2000gg76. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:07:23 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 122.752° East, -7.1547° South, depth 578.53 km.

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 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: Flores Sea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.752° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1547° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 578.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Flores Sea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-28 17:07:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-28 17:31:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.08 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 554 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 1.557 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000gg76 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gg76 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gg76, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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