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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Kota Ternate in Indonesia


Earthquake location 0.5055S, 126.4024WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 111 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia (69 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.37 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:00:41 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70004f10. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004f10. Exact location of event, depth 32.37 km, 126.4024° East, 0.5055° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/19 / 2019-07-08 19:00:41 / July 8, 2019 @ 7:00 pm.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 six, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 111 km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4024° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 0.5055° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-08 19:00:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 19:20:30 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 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 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 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 0.999 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70004f10 Id of event.
Event Code 70004f10 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004f10, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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