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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Tobelo in Indonesia

Posted by admin on January 7, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.421S, 126.789WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 155 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia (96 miles) on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.789 East, latitude 2.421 North, depth = 45.91 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.91 km (29 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/19 / 2019-01-07 14:11:52 / January 7, 2019 @ 2:11 pm. The temblor was detected at 22:11:52 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000j137. Event ids that are associated: us2000j137.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 155 km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.789° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.421° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155km WNW 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 2019-01-07 14:11:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-07 14:38:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 3.26 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 465 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 1.737 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us2000j137 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j137 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j137, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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