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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near Bitung in Indonesia

Posted by admin on March 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.7088S, 126.4233WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 141 km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia (88 miles). Exact location of event, depth 37.44 km, 126.4233° East, 1.7088° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000jkwi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jkwi. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:37:34 / 12:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.44 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 04:37:34 / March 24, 2019 @ 4:37 am.

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 141 km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4233° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.7088° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km ENE of Bitung, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-24 04:37:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 05:05:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 0 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 573 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 1.325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us1000jkwi Id of event.
Event Code 1000jkwi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jkwi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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