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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Manokwari in Indonesia


Earthquake location -0.7365S, 133.3292WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Manokwari in Indonesia. Event id: us2000hk57. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hk57. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.48 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/09/18 / 2018-09-26 09:27:41 / September 26, 2018 @ 9:27 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:27:41 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Manokwari in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 22.48 km, 133.3292° East, -0.7365° South.

Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Manokwari (c. 53 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manokwari (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 85 km W of Manokwari, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 133.3292° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.7365° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km W of Manokwari, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-26 09:27:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-26 09:48:24 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 2.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us2000hk57 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hk57 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hk57, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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