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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Flying Fish Cove in Christmas Island

Posted by admin on October 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.9551S, 105.3686WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 165 km NNW of Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island (103 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/10/18 / 2018-10-13 19:38:24 / October 13, 2018 @ 7:38 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Flying Fish Cove in Christmas Island (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 105.3686° East, -8.9551° South, depth 4.06 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:38:24 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.06 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000hbsa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hbsa.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 165 km NNW of Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.3686° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9551° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165km NNW of Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-13 19:38:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-13 20:08:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 1.541 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us1000hbsa Id of event.
Event Code 1000hbsa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hbsa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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