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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Abepura in Indonesia

Posted by admin on February 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -2.4375S, 140.123WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Abepura in Indonesia. The temblor was detected at 15:39:52 / 3:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 06:39:52 / February 16, 2019 @ 6:39 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Abepura in Indonesia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.69 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 26.69 km, 140.123° East, -2.4375° South. Event id: us2000jis0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jis0.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jayapura, Abepura. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Jayapura (c. 134 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Abepura (c. 62 200 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 three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 55 km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.123° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.4375° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-16 06:39:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-16 06:56:41 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 416 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 7.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us2000jis0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jis0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jis0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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