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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on August 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.7186S, 128.0548WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 109 kilometers (68 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Exact location of event, longitude 128.0548 East, latitude 2.7186 North, depth = 47.78 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g7a8. Id of event: us1000g7a8. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:23:15 / 2:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.78 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tobelo in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/08/18 / 2018-08-12 17:23:15 / August 12, 2018 @ 5:23 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tobelo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 110 km (68 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 seven and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 109 km N of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.0548° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.7186° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109km N of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-12 17:23:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-12 17:38:22 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 449 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 2.052 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us1000g7a8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g7a8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g7a8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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